Joined Sep 1998
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NC, US
Hi there folks,
Just some spitballing. I would appreciate your thoughts on my thoughts so I can think about your thoughts.
The situation is currently that it would be beneficial if I could make some beans from the comfort of my home so I put on my tinfoil thinking cap and thought long and hard about it. I couldn't come up with anything.
But then my invisible twin mentioned something that seemed ingenious. Take the half-assed creation that is the UHE and adapt it to be a network of "Unofficial BLANK" sites, the subject of which would be chosen by the people that would actually use the site. That's you guys and guys like you. This in essence would allow me to take the code I've written and use it again and again, magnifying it's benefit.
To clarify, say you really, really liked Hodakas, but just couldn't find a place to talk about them with people that thought Hodakas were as nifty as you did. You simply visit the mother-ship page, request a new site and voila! A new site is born which acts completely like the UHE, with the same features and systems.
The way I see it working is like so. Each site would remain separate, so people who really liked Husabergs would not be staring at the posts, classiifieds or member map of the people that really liked BSAs. They could of course visit the parent page and see what all sites there are under the "unofficial" umbrella, but otherwise, they never need know that any others exist. This would keep the sense of community from getting diluted like in larger sites, like TT, where you try to follow topics in 47 categories and you participate in a thread with 2,000 replies and kind of feel like you're whizzing in the ocean.
The area in which I see it working well is for interests that are niche-like enough that people need an outlet that isn't already provided by 20 other sites. For instance, I don't think another KTM site is needed as KTMT already provides a fantastic outlet for people that want to talk about the brand. That's not to say that the subsite can't be created if people asked for it, however. The crux of the system in my head relies solely on the users of the site asking for what they want, regardless of what's on the web.
The things I think I need to do before anything can be duplicated would be to finish the stuff I've been working on, like downloads, links, etc. As well, I need to figure out how to monetize the system. I've got an advertising system written into the site already, but need to finish it and adapt it to segregate between the sites so the advertiser could choose which subsites to advertise on and the system would alter the cost accordingly.
The benefit for the users(you guys) would obviously the features being implemented at a much quicker pace and any additional sites you wished existed for a product you like.
I think that's it. My invisible twin's gone quiet so he's either run out of ideas or he's plotting my demise again. I'd be very interested to know what you think, good or bad.
thanks,
json
Just some spitballing. I would appreciate your thoughts on my thoughts so I can think about your thoughts.
The situation is currently that it would be beneficial if I could make some beans from the comfort of my home so I put on my tinfoil thinking cap and thought long and hard about it. I couldn't come up with anything.
But then my invisible twin mentioned something that seemed ingenious. Take the half-assed creation that is the UHE and adapt it to be a network of "Unofficial BLANK" sites, the subject of which would be chosen by the people that would actually use the site. That's you guys and guys like you. This in essence would allow me to take the code I've written and use it again and again, magnifying it's benefit.
To clarify, say you really, really liked Hodakas, but just couldn't find a place to talk about them with people that thought Hodakas were as nifty as you did. You simply visit the mother-ship page, request a new site and voila! A new site is born which acts completely like the UHE, with the same features and systems.
The way I see it working is like so. Each site would remain separate, so people who really liked Husabergs would not be staring at the posts, classiifieds or member map of the people that really liked BSAs. They could of course visit the parent page and see what all sites there are under the "unofficial" umbrella, but otherwise, they never need know that any others exist. This would keep the sense of community from getting diluted like in larger sites, like TT, where you try to follow topics in 47 categories and you participate in a thread with 2,000 replies and kind of feel like you're whizzing in the ocean.
The area in which I see it working well is for interests that are niche-like enough that people need an outlet that isn't already provided by 20 other sites. For instance, I don't think another KTM site is needed as KTMT already provides a fantastic outlet for people that want to talk about the brand. That's not to say that the subsite can't be created if people asked for it, however. The crux of the system in my head relies solely on the users of the site asking for what they want, regardless of what's on the web.
The things I think I need to do before anything can be duplicated would be to finish the stuff I've been working on, like downloads, links, etc. As well, I need to figure out how to monetize the system. I've got an advertising system written into the site already, but need to finish it and adapt it to segregate between the sites so the advertiser could choose which subsites to advertise on and the system would alter the cost accordingly.
The benefit for the users(you guys) would obviously the features being implemented at a much quicker pace and any additional sites you wished existed for a product you like.
I think that's it. My invisible twin's gone quiet so he's either run out of ideas or he's plotting my demise again. I'd be very interested to know what you think, good or bad.
thanks,
json
