Yo, AKB-fans! I need thread ideas! Which awesome members are still missing threads? Any other ideas?
I thought about this. We should ask the new/casual akb fans what they want. What I'm trying to say is, the 'hardcore' fans are also members at S48 and Nihongogo and whatever, where pretty much every detail of AKB48 is discussed. I always thought of the AKBar as quick updates/goodies for the casual fan.
Tbh I'd say I'm a pretty hardcore fan but I very rarely visit S48 and I can't stand it at Nihongogo so JPH!P is really the only place I discuss AKB stuff. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that just because I'm on of few fans that doesn't visit those sites that an exception should be made and so this place should turn into AKB central. What I am saying though is that just because other sites that have AKB as their main subject matter exist doesn't mean this one can't at least have a bit more to it. After all Soshified forums exist and there's a pretty big SNSD following here, and there's Hello! Online for all H!P fans yet people come here too.
In reality though I think it's unrealistic to suddenyl expect an influx of members here for the AKB section, I'd like to see a bit more stuff around here but it's hard to say what unless people are willing to go out and scout for news etc to contribute. It's easy to see just how dead a lot of the threads are for the girls and so like I said earlier, there's plenty mroe memebrs I'd like to see get their own thread but in the long run, would it really be worth it?
I'm all up for discussing how this section can improve or even be revamped in some way but without putting a damper on things I'd say that it's not really worth it unless some more AKB fans can be convinced to come here. Speaking from personal experience I'm not a fan of JPop forums in general as I simply don't really like the atmosphere in a lot of them, and even though I don't knwo or speak to anyone in JPH!P it's one of the few places that is a pretty cool place to post where most people tend to get along fine. I'd say that it's pretty different than most JPop orientated forums out there and so the key to bringing in more people to liven up a section would be to promote that first.
That post probably made no sense but I can't be bothered reading over it.