How does one get traffic to their forum?

Posted onAuthorTruXter

Man I spent 2 days setting up m forum and chatroom. I have done all i can to get traffic to them and I do get traffic, but none fricken signs up.  They just show up and look around and then bail. It’s like they don’t want to be the only person posting on a vacant forum. But man, someone has to be the first to go there and post. I am tempted to make fake accounts. but I can’t see how to make posts and not feel like a dillweed.

Heck the forum is the same age as the chatroom. One month.  There is no irc relation at all. My site hosts the full weight of the bandwidth. Heck I have tons of bandwidth and tons of storage . I started a contest and posted the link  while trying to not be spammy.

How in the hell do I get people to post ?

Domain name Hell

Posted onAuthorTruXter

After getting a bill for an automatic update to my domain and storage.  Well I freaked out and started to cancel. then I remembered that my affiliate settings are signed up  through that domain name. I decided that it would be best if just transfer my domain name over to my pow web account.. well when I called the 1800 number to get the refund, “Rodney” (clearly not his name) Some guy I am assuming is somewhere in the middle east answered the phone. Hey I am cool with anyone at all times. but for god sakes what are saying?. I was so excited I got my refund and all I just hung up the phone.. Well “Rodney” closed my account intirely. I still have 4 months left on the storage and a year and a half left on the domain name. Well I call again, this time “joey” answered the phone.. Um this dude sounded just like Rodney..

Well I get go through a huge hokey pokey and finally I get my website signed up to my new host.

I am the poppa of

truxtertech.com

iworkwithtech.com

iworkwithpeople.com

For now they all point to the same spot. I am recreating  iworkwithtech and iworkwithpeople . I have miniature plans. Lets see what I can come up with.

I suggest you do your research.  It is a battle to leave 50megs.com. who by the way is owned by mysite.com who is owned by freewebs.com.

who is owned by  BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH. It goes on for ever.  Fact is, 50 megs gives you 1 gig of storage

Most new domain places out there like blue host, powweb and on and on give you 15 TB or more.

Win moderator spot, get 1 gigftp

Posted onAuthorTruXter

I am starting a game on my forums .

I am giving away moderator’s spots.

with each moderator’s spot I will be giving away a one gig ftp server and a “yourname@truxtertech.com”

email address.

The game is called “Name that Video Game”. Way to play the game is participate and correctly name 5 games , before anyone else does. Do not whisper me the answer, put it in a reply for everyone to see, I mean so no one thinks I am jipping them.. so Let it be seen when you win.

You must register to the truxtertechnews forum if you want to play.

First three mods are final mods for the video game section. Unless more are needed later.

I am giving away 9 gigs total. There will be mods in the computer section,gadgets section and in the video games section. All inactive moderators will be removed after 2 weeks of inactivity.

Ok First two games are here.

Tyler perry’s house of pain sucks (recap)

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I wrote on wordpress a bit of a quick rant about how I hate “Tyler Perry’s house of pain”.

It has been almost a year since I wrote this little rant and right now I am finally seeing other people upset about this stupid show. Almost a whole freaking year? Did it really take people that dang long to find out about this show being this total waste of air time? I mean really as person who lives in the same country as this fool I am offended. As a man of the same gender I am offended. As a person who watches fricken tv sometimes. I am offended by this complete and utter crap of a show.

Way to go Tyler Perry, let’s separate people and keep stereotypes alive.

Surely not a show I want to see in hd tv.

Be Among The First To Join My Tech Forum

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I have a forum on my site now, it’s up and running.

To me it was the nicest looking and easiest for me to use. The goal is to just start helping people with tech issues, and cover video games . Well you know, TECH content. I just want to help people and talk about some fun stuff. I have created a few categories and put some content in there. I would like some tips and ideas or maybe a few questions I might be able to answer for you.

So come on in and look around and sign up. Maybe make a post or two. Let me know you’re out there.

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Sheesh, after all of the work I did, I linked it wrong.

Link fixed now.

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New Tech Forum

Posted onAuthorTruXter

It’s new , it needs you.

I just built a tech support and rumors forum with a video game and console section.
I hope you people like it.
I will be adding moderators as I see the users with morals sticking around.
I will be banning all clowns as fast as I can and as often as I can. who knows maybe I will redirect them to forums I hate -)

The goal is to get information and news about tech to the world. and what the hell, to hang out and talk to others like myself.
I don’t see any out there with the same stuff as what I have envisioned so I am making it myself. yes there will be a fight room. Because hey, we all do need to get it out of our systems.
But no fighting in main rooms.

There is avatar and all other options we all have been missing through the past few years as these places seem to get invisible these days.
Yes you can upload your own images to my server, I can handle a fricken lot .
bbcode welcome, html code welcome (for now)

Start a thread and break ground with me.

The Biofuel Most Studied

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I have been watching these videos about these cars that use up our water resources but state “only by-product is a puff of steam.” That is a misleading statement. It’s not like we get the water back. Only a small puff of steam from a full tank is returned back to our use.

See its advertisements and witty wording, and the public mass that upsets me on the whole ” Oh I’m gonna save the world and drive a car that uses water instead of gasoline.” Durh… I am pretty sure we could wipe out all the lakes in Utah, in less than a week. in the end get back to our atmosphere, a whole whopping half a gallon of water.

See it seems that it’s the Nimrods who buy bottled water for $2 a 20 oz bottle and gripe about gasoline being $4 a gallon, (do you see the irony?) that seem to be so dang gung-ho on the idea of using water for fuel. Honda seems to already have a car out that uses up our water. I am quite sure it isn’t cheap. and I sure do not see water or steam squirting out the exhaust pipes.

Back in the days when I was a rebellious kid, I did some studying. Lots of studying, on the topic of the uses of hemp. People for years have been making clothes, oils, paints, food, soap, and many other things out of hemp.

Well last night I got a refreshing flashback when I did a search for fuel alternatives. I came across hempcar.org.

It seems they made a biodegradable fuel that burns well enough to put into a Mercedes. These guys went on a journey of 13,000 miles and had an average mileage for the entire trip of 21 mpg. I know these days 21 mpg does not sound that great. But that car was not brand new, and you have to imagine they saw some hilly country with the heater blasting. In traffic.

Under many circumstances, they achieved 21 true miles per gallon. and the planet lost nothing from it, except some stems and seeds. Stems and seeds that can be replenished, regrown, refilled. Water is a resource we cannot live without. Water is a resource we need to make our food, to nourish our bodies.

I am against cars that destroy a resource as valuable as water.

New Domain

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I looked around at hosts today and did a search to check up on them.

I find the easiest way to find out if a host is good or not is type the host’s name, and then “sucks” right after it.

Well I found one with the least amount of what I would call “valid complaints” such as major downtime and such.

Look at me rambling without giving my sites a plug.

iworkwithpeople.com
iworkwithtech.com
truxtertech.com <—– My new domain name.

I forwarded iworkwithtech.com to the same location, so they are both going to be the same for a little while until I get done splitting them into two . I do have plans. Other wise I wouldn’t have pitched out money like that.

as I was looking at hosting sites. I noticed a lot of the sites like blue host, you you know , the ones that claim unlimited storage space and bandwidth for like 7 dollars a month. They all had tons of complaints. I stopped on the one I got when I saw realistic numbers.. Well to me they are unbelievable, considering I’m a bit old school.

15,000 Gigs/Month
(500+ Gigs/Day!)

Disk Space (Raid Storage) 1,500 GB

Can you tell I copied and pasted that from the site?

well 49 bucks a year for that , not so bad.

PHP capable. That alone stomps all over my old out dated host 50megs.com.

I can’t believe the crap I was accepting. 75 a year for 1 gig storage no scripting no ht access, nothing. Each thing I would want turned on like “security and registration privacy” add 3 dollars a month for each upgrade. on top of that, their name server is “freewebs.com” WTF!!!!!!? you can’t register that crap with anyone, no one takes that junk serious. freewebs, come on man.

Well I went on with powweb . I am happier with this move over where I was. So if you have any input such as “oh man you should have gone to…” blah blah blah. Don’t bother responding. The bill has been paid, I’m gonna camp a little while.