@cloudguy:
Do something else instead of wiki editing and then go back. I'll try. Thanks for the advice.
Odd thing I learned from RenChamp's interview is that people stopped discussing comic books in ComicVine? I haven't seen that in Anime Vice. I can't really imagine in Anime Vice not discussing anime and manga. Though, I do agree and see with him on older users leaving. The new users in my site - they are too complacent, tend not to do big things like organize a contest such as caption contest, fill the panels), tournament, or even spotlight users.
I stopped doing best battle users in Anime Vice after we ran out of users. We kept repeating the old ones. The new ones complain but they didn't step it up. And there were folks saying it became a popularity contest of meme postings instead of promoting the battle user who does respect and made a variety in battle threads.
Glad you're doing the ComicVine interviews. I might renew it in my community. We used to do it. Our community is small.
I do wonder if social media has an effect on ComicVine. I heard that was one of issues in Giant Bomb where users thought that was killing their forums. People these days have shorter attention spans and crave instant responses. Stuff like TWitter, Amino Apps, Twitch, Discord are all the rage. Blogging and Reviewing seems to be dying out. Though, "journalism" on the web seems to be going strong. I put quotation marks since a lot of them tend to clickbait or try to provoke people these days.
Old CV and AV and the former family sites had more heart in their articles. Back then when we had personality driven sites.
I do notice one commonality between AV and CV - more battle users - you have to get them to be more part of the site. That was my and few of my fellow mods' challenge in AV, trying to get them into wiki editing, participate in anime and manga discussions .
I see RenChamp more active in the battle threads. I could be wrong.
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