Hey all, A few days ago Admin PM'd me asking for ideas to get more people posting on AnimePhilia, I came up with some rather good ideas but nothing seams to be working.
So, Does anyone have any ideas to Save AnimePhilia?
Come on Community, Put your heads together and fight for this amazing forum!
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Come on People, IDEAS???

Someone could go to websites and post links etc.

Personally, I don't feel comfortable going to my regular sites and advertising for this place because 1. it's spamming and 2. I have friends that would then know I like she-cock. Honestly, this forum is very narrowly focused. Perhaps if we expanded into other types of erotic art, more people would come. Also finding other anime related sites to partner with besides just sheanimale would help.

True true, I told some friends on Neowin about the site and got a three month ban! Anyway, Everyone I know, knows I like she-cock. And I have asked alot of People to Join, for example.
Angrbotha (reads the forum occasionally),
Kelbesa (contributes with horrible spelling)
Longy (Dosnt like She-Cock, but good for the anime section)

and a few others.
I'll be adding this site to the Affiliates page on my site after I've finished brainstorming.

Otherwise, I agree, the site is a little narrow minded, but we're getting there, we've got a live action forum now.

Anyone else?

If we're looking to expand to another area, I personally like famous toons type stuff. I prefer to look at american characters than anime for sex stuff.

By famous toons you're talking about Teen Titans?

This forum is part of SheAniMale.

SheAniMale serves the narrow she-male art nitch.

Expanding subjects too far beyond beyond she-males or anime/cartoons is like padding the membership of a vegetarian club by offering steak dinners.

Sure you'll get a lot more people (hell, if steak is on the menu, I'm in) but it ain't a vegetarian group any more.

Getting more action on a forum is always a problem. Even a political blog, where everyone and his brother has an opinion, carries nine lurkers for every one who'll actually spew. Getting 10% participation with a subject like ours is about as likely as all of us winning the lottery six months in a row.

Well, it's the sad truth... thanks for your insites

By famous toons you're talking about Teen Titans?
My personal favorite artist does pictures of all sorts of famous characters, from superheroes to funny page characters, to all kinds of TV cartoons and Disney characters. I have a thing for Ariel from Little Mermaid personally.

I hate being Mr. Gloom and Doom, so how’s this for an idea:

Let’s set up an amateur corner.

I can’t draw worth a damn, but some of us probably can.

Odds are some of us have kept some of the kinky things we’ve drawn in the past lying around the house. I’d have some of my better early work if they weren’t so picky about me walking off with a bathroom stall wall. (Just as well, damn thing probably would have crushed my scanner.)

I think thats a great idea :)

I've found that a lot of people that are into Futa are also into Furry and/or Furry Futa.

Adding Furry to the list of topics would bring in a nice number of people, I think.

Beyond that, however, I'm not sure what else to suggest right now. Maybe the lower the post-count requirement for free memberships?

Yeah a Furry Forum sounds like a good idea.

As for the lower post count, I agree, however I doubt Admin will

I think this site can expand by trying to draw in the people most interested in it. Hard to do that without spamming. I know that I check out craig's list and can include this site on my posts...but that makes it hard to do. Need something that gets a lot of attention...like something on youtube that will draw in lots of people. But I also agree that should not expand the menu. This place is for people that like shemale stuff...that's why I come here to look at the same and post the same.

I found the forum through free previews offered on movie and gallery web sites. As this forum is directly linked to Sheanimale, maybe the free previews should be extended to the cartoon preview web sites. I don't recall seeing any on the cartoon preview sites I've seen.

I was rereading the other comments and got to thinking about the concern of other members in having their shemale interests discovered. Wouldn't that be a simple matter of creating a second or third online personality with its own screen name, pasword and profile? This one is not my primary, every day online life.

um i have a suggestion, instead of the 5 posts to see the attachments to get the site more active with more memeber have like 5 posts for a month of viewing.

what i mean is they have to post like every month/weeks whichever you would put it at, just to view the attachments since i have been seeing so many accounts with just 5-6 posts just to view the pics we post.

this is what i posted in another thread about getting more active members

I was a member of SheAnimale several months ago and checked out the forum here because of it.

However, I was as guilty as anyone of swiping pictures from it without contributing at all -- until the "5 post" rule came into play. It forced me to overcome my shyness -- both in joining a forum (I generally despise the things) and in discussing my burgeoning preoccupation with shemales and their many variants.

Once I got started though -- after I did the customary handful of posts just so I could see the images -- I found myself liberated to a certain degree, and more than eager to discuss my feelings and urges with those of a like bent. It also helps that I cannot stop writing, and enjoy it both personally and professionally.

Now, perhaps making a monthly posting quota a reality might work in cases like mine -- where I found the experience a freeing one -- but I also think that you are still going to get those people who currently reach their 5th post and write "Here's my fifth post," and then grab everything they can. These people are, for the most part, uninterested in actually taking part.

I have noticed more and more people on here the last couple of weeks -- many of them my described version of "5-posters" -- but I think that if even just a few of those do what I did and start to join in the conversation at large, it will make the board a richer experience for everyone. And for relative newbies like me, and for those who are longtime posters, the best thing we can do is to give them a reason to wish to join: to make the conversation real and interesting, and hopefully to get them to open up a little bit.

Well you could advertise through google or any of the adult search engines out there. I know that spamming is not a good idea since spamming is not permisable. Maybe asking for help on some of the other mainstream sites too, ofcourse dealing with shemales. Just a thought.

I really thing spamming is not bad.. for a good cause I think I can do it

Yet it really wouldn't matter much because of low amount of futa compared to other hentai and the free stuff is scarce

there's been a couple of forums where i go and people ask for links to sites for shemale or anime or both and i just send them here i noticed one or two have joined but i believe spamming other forums in a polite way not the whole, HEY PEOPLE COME LOOK AT THIS SITE!!! and then never post there again. but going to forums and becoming a somwhat established member THEN posting the links to this forum. (I know i dont post often but i dont usually see anything i cna contribute to...LOL).:peace:

promote on more sites i would say

Yeah, there aren't many ways we are going to get people her if we don't promote on other Sites, be it shemale , porn forums or Whatever.

I think a HUGE problem we have is that we get people who join, make 5 posts, and say **** you. No more posts after that...but we do has some troopers who bust their humps

I almost want to say they need to make 5 decent posts a month... but thats up to the owners of the site...

Yeah, there aren't many ways we are going to get people her if we don't promote on other Sites, be it shemale , porn forums or Whatever.

I think a HUGE problem we have is that we get people who join, make 5 posts, and say **** you. No more posts after that...but we do has some troopers who bust their humps
*Looks at back*

MY HUMPS GONE

It looks alright for me

I like your idea Com, but I would say more like 10 average...

Call me demanding

*Insert Dprinny calling me Demanding*

i think thats a good idea to add more section in this forum,not just focuse in She-cocks...i know we already have some section out from futa/shemale...but if you want to make this forum more perfect maybe we should focus in to new section...(out from she male/ futa) , as the name of this forum (AnimePhillia) i dun think so thats bad for us to tryin start in other anime stuff...

sorry to say this,but maybe for some of you thats not ashamed to show to others ppls in net or real life if you are a Shemale Lover,but thats not mean all of peoples here not ashame,( even for me tahts my big secret if i'm a shemale lover) so i think why not if we try to make this forum not serve and show just aout anime shemales,but all the anime porn stuff,com'on guys this is just a forum to share i mean,not a website who sell the stuff.

I also think we could bulk up a little more...


I realize that this is a hentai/porn forum, but It seems to me like most of our members are exclusive to porn...as in, If someone started a thread named "Video Game thread" there would be very few posts.

I urge high recruitment through ads on other forums and websites (Myspace, etc etc)

I hate being Mr. Gloom and Doom, so how’s this for an idea:

Let’s set up an amateur corner.

I can’t draw worth a damn, but some of us probably can.

Odds are some of us have kept some of the kinky things we’ve drawn in the past lying around the house. I’d have some of my better early work if they weren’t so picky about me walking off with a bathroom stall wall. (Just as well, damn thing probably would have crushed my scanner.)

i'm not a to bad artist... i might to embrassed to put my stuph up >.> most is EXTREMELY sketchy... only really draw when nothing better i have to do O.O... but i might be willing if someone else is

I also think we could bulk up a little more...


I realize that this is a hentai/porn forum, but It seems to me like most of our members are exclusive to porn...as in, If someone started a thread named "Video Game thread" there would be very few posts.

I urge high recruitment through ads on other forums and websites (Myspace, etc etc)

uum..i think we cannot put ad in MySpace,facebook or etc, they will block the ad if they know most of this forum is bout porn..haha..
except u put ad in porn sites too..it will be different..

I almost want to say they need to make 5 decent posts a month... but thats up to the owners of the site...

A problem with that is that it's difficult to rate the quality of a post. How many newcomers will create 5 useless posts in order to see the pics, and add nothing whatsoever to the quality of the forum/discussion...

Putting barriers only goes so far. The people who are not interested in participating will simply post shit until they are allowed in, and then, leech.

I'd suggest three things.
1.make the barrier variable. People are only able to see pics after a good introduction and some posts. But they are limited to X per day, where X is relative to their (active) participation in the forums... That means that they are posting regularly and their posts are good.

2.Need something more than simple posts to advance... For instance, give better score to longer posts and posts with attachements, opposite to simple "thx!!!!!!!:-)" posts. Posts with "thanks" from senior members would also count more.

3.Have private sections for good members. Have some content restricted to real useful members. I don't mean content given by a third party, but some threads could be made exclusively for these sections

Eh....J Martin built on some of our ideas, but going through Members posts to see if they are up to par would be a very tedious task, unless you plan on designing some algorithm (Not applying to that, for post count) or having a program that would somehow be magical and know if what they are saying is relevant or even makes sense.

Though I loved the private section idea.

Eh....J Martin built on some of our ideas, but going through Members posts to see if they are up to par would be a very tedious task, unless you plan on designing some algorithm (Not applying to that, for post count) or having a program that would somehow be magical and know if what they are saying is relevant or even makes sense.

Though I loved the private section idea.

The "quality" could be determined by the total number of thanks. That would mean though, that the ability to "thank" is restricted, so that they actually are worth something, and not so free to give.

People could start being invited in a private section once they attain X posts and Y received thanks, or something like that. The forum already calculates some statistics, we could just use them.

maybe post more links

the idea of free membership for posts is the best idea ever. that is why i joined. the only problem is im stuck at 150 or so posts because i have posted on every active thread and no one is responding... i cant get free membership by myself... this stinks... i think making more topics would be good. the main thing that needs to be done is raise the post count for viewing stuff... or make a required amount of 10 posts a month that way people dont just leech off the site

how about a system where you 'pay' with the thanks you get for viewing stuff or something like that

btw: i like some of the ideas in here certainly the private area for outstanding members!

wow, a spammer actually came here to contribute... spam. to this thread - great idea. more spam!!

how about a system where you 'pay' with the thanks you get for viewing stuff or something like that

btw: i like some of the ideas in here certainly the private area for outstanding members!

that could be good, but then we'd need to regulate how people can "thank" - to avoid people registering more than once to spam thanks to one another. Thanks could be given only by the senior members, that would make it a nice little clique.

give people membership for posting, advertise on other sites, widen the focus of the forums to cover more areas of stuff

I'm new here, but it seems to me that this place has already been left to obscurity with the majority of the big members not posting for a couple of good years. Having experience in running a failing community, I can probably lend a few bits of advice that might help.

The first is has easily been accomplished by having the forum attached to a site with content. The problem here is advertising. See, while members can go out and tell everyone about the forums, that only goes so far, because people are either inherently lazy or hesitant to join a new community. More often than not, they'll just lurk (I'll get to that in a minute) and won't really contribute much to the bulk of the site. What you need to do here is have a clear area on the actual site (that being SheAniMale) that there is a large, bustling community awaiting new members. Of course, this being an adult themed site, it's going to be difficult attracting the kind of people who'd keep a forum alive with constant discussion and whatnot.

The other issue is how most people's preconceived notions when they join is to just leech content. This forum is practically advertised as a place to get free swag, which really puts a damper on having more members who actually post for the sake of posting. I think maybe one good idea would be to have a special section of the boards that houses the content people desire becoming visible to members only after they make say...25 to 50 posts?

Other than that, I'm not really sure what's going on here. There's a lot of cool cats and plenty of intelligent discussion going on to keep people interested. I mean, I know this is an adult site, but there's more to things than just T'n'A, right?

With the newest round of spammers, I'm really beginning to support Dark Side's ideas. We need some way to keep this forum alive, and a special members' section is a great idea to keep people in here.

Honestly, I don't know why I still visit this place. I guess knowing that I'm one of the people who still contribute new stuff attracts me back. Anyways, no matter what happens, I'll likely be with this site til the very end.

There's not a lot (practically none) of interpersonal communication going on around here. It's kind of sad.

I was a pretty bored so I decided to read the first page of this thread. Its really a sad wake-up call. Even the moderators from the past knew that the forum was slightly uncommunicative (if that's even a word...).

The sad part to me isn't the lack of communication and contributions, its the combination of the high amount of users and the former. I admit that about half of them are ad-bots, but there's still a good 50 - 70 people who sign in annually. It just shows how porn forums and sites are mainly for a quick release. (excuse my terse wording in this post).

What you say is accurate.

Gentlemen, I will officially announce that this ship has sunk. This is the first time I've visited in about a month and its a wreck in here. Its a shame to see one of my frequent hentai forums go down like this, but I guess this happens to everything eventually.

Spammers (bots, humans, or whatever else) are roaming these waters and I think its time to abandon ship. Its been an awesome journey guys, but I don't think I'll ever be coming back. Thanks comsmith for all your hard work, but I don't think its worth it at this point. Such a shame that all that work couldn't stop the never-ending stream of whatever these guys are.

Good bye Animephilia, and good luck on your survival. I wish you the best.

We will miss you, fingered. :sad: