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Originally Posted by The Batlord
I remember trying to take it over, but I think that my failure at keeping it going was more down to the thread being on the decline or on its last legs by that point.
Multiple people, myself included, have since tried to revive it, but there has just been little interest. Even when I tried putting up battles between albums that would actually interest people, the participation was still weak or even nonexistent.
With my experiences in my thread of what genres seem to generate the most interest, I might give it another go. Thrash, trad, proto, and apparently glam metal seem to get the most involvement, whereas extreme metal is often ignored by many. Don't know why, since extreme metal is one of the more popular genres around here. I guess the more accessible genres are just more likely for non-metal fanatics to be at least somewhat educated in.
Maybe there's a way to turn the two threads into sort of sister threads. Discussion on Metal Survivor generally tends to be minimal, even when participation is relatively high, while battles in Metal Wars had higher rates of non-vote posts.
I think it's probably due to the amount of albums in my thread, whereas the two or three albums posted in yours were easier to focus on. Most of the discussion in mine was usually generated by the back-and-forth by me, Frownland, Mondo, and a few others when I was still making and fine-tuning my lists. Otherwise it's mostly just vote posts.
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The key to these threads is one or two dedicated people in making it work by posting and updating reguarly. Secondly good interaction with the other forum members, by getting them to participate often but in a light way, as nobody wants to be dumped with writing album reviews etc. Trollheart's metal month concept could be the way to go as that provokes a big community involvement and the participants actually do very little, which is the same in Metal Wars as all people do is just suggest their albums etc and provoke debate. All metal wars needs is a sound and solid concept and it will take off.
It needs as said one or two people, or another strong idea is a group of say 12 people who can chair it for one month of the year and run it how they want and when their month is up it passes over to somebody else, so whatever way you look at it it is never too high a burden for anybody. As a pointer I think anybody that is used to writing a journal could easily chair this kind of project and inject ideas into it.
I admit it's kind of strange about some of the extreme metal genres getting less interest as they are normally the metal genres that most people on here seem really into.