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hutcheson

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Waiting there for review.

A hint: there is a widespread myth that millions of people are scanning the internet looking for places to post their content. It isn't so: anyone may set up their own website with little trouble and expense.

People with something worth posting, only post on sites that appear to collect stuff worth posting. In other words, established sites.

Any "aggregate content" site, to be successful, needs constant active (proactive) content collection. BUILD IT, and they will come. Don't spread out the plans. Don't lay the foundations. BUILD a site that, even were nobody else on earth to ever post on it, would be worth visiting. Without that, nobody will visit to post. (My proverb du jour: The ODP does not confer success, it only recognizes it.)

If you aren't ready to make that kind of commitment, go ahead and shut the site down. If you are ... let's hope the site doesn't get reviewed until you have a chance to show more evidence of it.

Good luck: I think a community website for a small town is a noble effort. But ... it is a BIG effort.
 
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Henny1999

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hutcheson said:
Waiting there for review.

A hint: there is a widespread myth that millions of people are scanning the internet looking for places to post their content. It isn't so: anyone may set up their own website with little trouble and expense.

People with something worth posting, only post on sites that appear to collect stuff worth posting. In other words, established sites.

Any "aggregate content" site, to be successful, needs constant active (proactive) content collection. BUILD IT, and they will come. Don't spread out the plans. Don't lay the foundations. BUILD a site that, even were nobody else on earth to ever post on it, would be worth visiting. Without that, nobody will visit to post. (My proverb du jour: The ODP does not confer success, it only recognizes it.)

If you aren't ready to make that kind of commitment, go ahead and shut the site down. If you are ... let's hope the site doesn't get reviewed until you have a chance to show more evidence of it.

Good luck: I think a community website for a small town is a noble effort. But ... it is a BIG effort.
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Thanks for the advice! Yes, I haven't officially kicked off in the community (of about 1000 people ;) ) I still have some things I need to get done (not related) Thanks again for taking a look :)
 
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