(As posted to the Stocky Jock forums and to the Stocky Jock Yahoo Group)
The domain registration for Stocky Jock is due on 12 October 2003.
I've pulled the site down before for temporary bits to upgrade things, rebuild the site after losses, and sporadically out of sheer frustration.
However, this time, it won't be temporary. I rebuilt the site in late July, posted a new gallery (two of Scooter). I made it easier for people to post stories, discuss the site, and made profile management even easier.
Profiles have slowly grown...and there are very sporadic messages on the forums.
No new stories and no new gallery submissions.
I've had several people who want to do galleries they say, then when it comes time to actually do the shoot, they back out. So no new galleries from this end either.
I love Stocky Jock. I truly do. However, I don't see the point of keeping it around and paying the $10 every year for a site that collects dust for 98.5% of the time.
If people really want to see this site stay on the web, there needs to be a flood of new stories/art/galleries/forum chatter.
Today is 29 Sept 2003. Two weeks until I have to renew the site.
Right now, I don't see a reason to renew it. I've done my work on this end to make the site that lots of people visit, but very very few people hold up their end of the deal and do some work to make the site even better.
2 comments:
I'm glad that Stocky Jock unintentionally pointed me here, to Live Journal (through your web page). I'm a fan, and the Galleries are good. It's a shame they aren't growing. I like Bruce's stories, too. Right now, if you're not going to make a big push for content, I guess the growth will stay about the same. It's not a site that will grow without a lot of effort being put forth, and if that's not what you want to do, then perhaps you should let it go. I'll miss it.
Stockyjock is really a great site with a lot of room for growth, blah blah blah. But you can't expect people to go there just by building a site and provinding some tongue-in-cheek photos of people in various stages of undress in sports equipment. How well do you advertise the site? How can you get the word out about stockjock.com?
You have taken on one of the most frustrating tasks: a web developer of a fetishist site that is poorly advertised. You have to expect to be frustrated. Build the site up, advertise it and then block is every other day like bear411.com unless you get some paid memberships.
Just a thought.
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