So I was looking at the statistics of the site today and started to wonder where all the not white people are. I mean there are a couple non-white people but in general the site is like 99.9% white.
Do you think it is the name elmwoodstrip.or implies the neighborhood elmwoodstrip which is kind of segragated. I am wondering if maybe a new name would help. I am pretty atatched to the name though. If not what else can be done to reach out to other people. Maybe even some spanish speakers. It would be pretty easy to translate the interface if I had some help.
I am also curious why so many people have signed up recently but have not written. This week I totally redid the formerlly lame welcome letter and added the tutorial link at the top.
(e:jim) was supposed to help me with setting up a newbie guide but I am not sure what happend with that as I never was able to get ahold of him. When that is complete it will help to.
What can we do to get new people that not only sign up, but join in and start writing? Any ideas?
To be Honest I'm not sure how people hear about the site. But those that hear about it through Word of Mouth and decide to join because friends are on it you would think would post. But maybe they don't because they feal like they would be telling there friends online the same thing they say to them offline.
I admit other then that I'm not sure why people would join and not write. It would be interesting (not sure how you have the system set up and if you can tell this or not) if you had the site set up so you could tell who looked at whos post. I know you have the count of total views but I have no idea if you can tell who the viewers are. Maybe some people who joined are people who read the posts but don't say anything.
I don't know how big you want the site to get but maybe some type of signs Hanging around Buff State Might Help.
You and flacidness and southernyankee are out of about 300 people. That is my whole point.
I'm pretty darn not white...