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Originally Posted by
Corona688
Considering the number of accounts here that were one-post wonders, maybe ...
I bounce around to lots of forums and post a few messages and then bounce on. Some forums measure my absence and send me an email saying they miss me. I assume it's automated.
On the one hand, I don't like that. I view it as quasi-spam. But on the other hand, I can't help myself--I frequently reward them by logging in and responding to a few posts. A compromise would be to send not only the initial welcome email, but another one or two sometime after their first and third post or so.
Another twist on the article idea is to identify 10 or 20
influential bloggers in the UNIX/Linux world and personally contact them and ask them to mention something positive about this site. I'm not big on blogs, so I'm not sure who that would be.
Maybe you could bribe them with a tee shirt or coffee cup.
Speaking of that--do you guys sell tee shirts or coffee cups?