Activating the local community is not an easy task. I know, because we have been trying to do this for several months together with several users of Polish local board. Initially, I was convinced that it was only a matter of the number of merits distributed on the local board, but after a few months, when we were able to definitely increase the number of merits, it turned out that this is not enough. We also tried contests for good posts, bitcoin predictions etc. but the effects are not the best. Fortunately, our involvement has had some effects and now regular posters on the Polish board are a few more but I still hope that they will be able to collect a much larger group...
Agree with you @Cryptovigi that to activate a local community is not an easy task but I can't agree that the effects of what we are doing are not the best and I will try to explain why.
I am lucky to be here on Bitcointalk for a long time and I have seen how our local board is evolving during all these years. Of course, the best judge will be @Malevolent our moderator because he is there almost from start and witnessed everything but I have seen too how much traffic we had in Polish board during these years.
Little more as one year ago, when I started my mega
thread, the situation was really bad and there where almost no posts and discussions in the polish board. But today, I am happy when I visit our local section. There are plenty of new posts every day and many more high-quality threads. I see every week, more high ranked members coming back to our local section, to take part in discussions. What is even better a lot of new members tries their luck and writing skills starting new topics.
The polish local section was never crowded. I dare say, that it is almost as good, as in times of the highest crypto mania when it goes, to our section. Of course, when one looks at other boards of this forum, and at our small local community, could think that indeed, there is nothing going on but this section was always small and I am happy that we achieved such progress, only with few people. I just can't imagine what can happen, when all these new and old members stay with us or will be coming back more frequently.
I would like to take the opportunity and ask for additional merit source for our Polish forum, which is simply necessary. Our work will be forfeited if we can not reward the best posts with merits. There is a whole bunch of very good threads or even individual posts in our section, which are still not rewarded. It would be great if merit sources could visit our section from time to time and give few additional merits to support us.
I know that this is very difficult for merit sources to merit posts in a language they don't understand and this is why additional merit source is so important in the local section. We have only one source and he is not able alone to merit all posts in our section by himself. Additionally, another source is another person who has a different character, different tastes, other sense of humor and maybe even completely different political views or opinions on various matters and this is all very good because he will merit different type of posts as merit source number one. Quite a new group of people has a chance for merits.
The topic of the thread is: Ideas for improving local boards?
I answer: first and foremost, give the needy sections more merit sources.
