Tech Guru wrotemmk92 wroteThe GUI is minimal and functional, IMO it’s perfect for its purpose.
LinkedIn and other professional job searching sites are more suitable for such purposes.
Geeks would spearfish and find communities like this. It’s not the type of community that should be actively advertised for everyone.
I respect your justifications , but I am giving my opnion. People have different prespectives on articulating things.
While it is true that you are sharing opinions, in my opinion (hehe) it would be nice if you could back up yours with arguments. I am not at all disagreeing with you, it's just that it annoys me when people read other's opinions and acknowledge that they respect those opinions without offering a counter to theirs or a proof of your own.
And just so that I don't look like a complete #$%^ with this post, I will defend a point of yours being that increasing exposure is not completely redundant. I do agree that some geeks would spearfish for this site, but many do not. Also, exposure would be great for encouraging new people to become geeks by even passing the minimum requirements for signing up for this site.
As to how, I cannot see any method working; creating Facebook page would be a massive detriment to the site, maybe even shifting traffic off of here to there, or we could see a massive transformation of the page to the Sell your Stuff thread, which would make us a bland generic site like every other one out there. I am also certainly not suggesting payed ads, since this website does not even have any ads (massive thanks the Samer and the mods), I do not even know how they manage the upkeep. So my final conclusion would be word of mouth between us geeks. I do this as much as possible and I have managed to add a couple of members on here (that may not be that active) and have had people thanking me for referring them to threads about the state of the internet in Lebanon, or shipping from abroad and even some networking issues.
I'd love to see some new arguments brought up and correctly argued. And please feel free to provide a counterargument to this or point out fallacies in my argument.