My first idea consists of creating a more abundant amount of responses by adding notifications. Such as if someone rep'd you, commented on your guide, or quoted you. I feel like this will quicken the response time between users and allow them to see who is interacting with them.
Another idea I had to create more communication between users is to change the Off-topic sub-section to something more inviting. Something that has been done on sites like GaiaOnline (iE; the Chatterbox), and create something where users that are close within the Dotafire community can just blab between each other about whatever.
Most likely the most impactful of my ideas; create rewards for the active members of the community. By creating forum competitions I believe it gives the members more incentive to come on the site. Some of these would consist of forum games and some would be based on activity and popularity. One of which I was theory crafting of having a post game, first person to post with their posts numbered to a certain value would win a DoTA2 cosmetic. Posts ranging from simple bumps to chatting, and awards ranging from uncommons to mythicals. On the other end, we could host a reward system to the highest rated guide of the month, or most innovative guide. These are just ideas for now, and suggestions are welcome.
My last suggestion is a bit more out of Dotafire's hands and into control of the owners of the Mobafire Network. If you would, you can see in the top left corner the three hosted sites of Mobafire, but if you do the same on Mobafire.com you do not see these. The site is hidden to new users and requires you to actually click a drop down to realize that this site is part of the network. I think by actually having the site advertised ,as is Mobafire on here, then we will get more attention and maybe even spark the interest of some LoL players to give DoTA a try.
[TL;DR]
Re-purpose Off-topic, Install notifications, Prizes, and Incorporating Dotafire on Mobafire.
Good Suggestions, And if I may, I wish that a chat box can be available to make people entertained and certainly ask questions in a 1 to 1 talk with an expert such as yourself to the world of Dota 2. And also LoL and Dota 2 are kinda like magnets facing each other with their north poles and south poles, only small people can adapt from LoL to Dota 2 and vice versa. And also some people who play LoL say that Dota 2 is rubbish. Well, I said to them they can have any opinion they want but they're missing the fun and competitiveness in Dota 2.
Lol, thanks man but I'm far from an expert, I just understand the fundamentals of the genre. Its like shooters, once you master one you've mastered them all you just have to factor in bullet spread / drop / recoil, the basics. On that note, I can transition to any ARTS game, once you know the basics like stats / attributes / map layout you can basically pick up a hero and learn it within the first 10 minutes of observing. (I also play League)
In regards to a chat system, I don't think there is enough active members to have this applied at the moment, its a great idea, but we don't have the manpower to currently incorporate it. If you would like though, each of us can be private messaged and many of us will give you a quick and diligent reply.
Oh please, we all know that Hades runs the show here.
I agree.
What show, dem dirty videos? :P
You'd be surprised by the amount of effort I put for the site
@Atlas ~^_^~
I'm game, surprise me.
Oh please, we all know that Hades runs the show here.
What show, dem dirty videos? :P
You'd be surprised by the amount of effort I put for the site
@Atlas ~^_^~
Not that Nubtrain isn't a f*cking boss.
Oh please, we all know that Hades runs the show here.
You're just vet status, I'm addressing his distress of the admin-ship and moderation on the site.
Not that Nubtrain isn't a f*cking boss.
i would like to weigh in here. i think we should add a subscribe option to the users. There are some people that make great guides. and by subscribing you can get a notification each time they make a new guide so you dont miss it.
This is a good idea for when we have more people making guides, personally there's only 2 people that I actually care to know each time they make a guide.
I do too D:
You're just vet status, I'm addressing his distress of the admin-ship and moderation on the site.
Thanks for the support, but I'm not "you guys", I'm just an editor on the site who enjoys seeing the community flourish, but I can personally vouch that Atlas and Hades put quite a bit of effort into seeing over the community and make appropriate calls.
I do too D:
i would like to weigh in here. i think we should add a subscribe option to the users. There are some people that make great guides. and by subscribing you can get a notification each time they make a new guide so you dont miss it.
That's actually not a bad idea, whether it's a guide being created or blog/etc, people will be notified, something like how stream sites notify you through email