Perhaps a question of the day or week? 

I guess, for me, hair isn't interesting enough in and of itself to keep me yaking.  People love to talk about their passions, their points of view.  Unfortunately, to me it really feels like no one wants to hear it here. ..it's just so hair-centric.  I generally come here to check out new 'stick styles and to jumpstart my memory on hairstyles...unfortunately there aren't very many of those.  I think that if it wasn't for the email with the new hairsticks listed, I wouldn't be here very often at all. 

Quizzes, games, all could help.  And just like IRL, small-talk topics such as "what do you do?" fall flat fast.  But a question like "What personality qualities do you think are necessary to grow rapunzel-length hair?  Why?  Do you think you have these qualities?" stimulates discussion.

Also like IRL, I've noticed that if you put someone in charge of something, they have a better chance of showing up.  Kind of like serving in ministry guarantees that you'll be in church on Sunday (and usually on time, lol).  Perhaps it owuld help to put people "in charge" of fostering discussion on different days, or make certain people the "host" of a board where they are responsible for encouraging discussion and eventually, if it gets big enough, reporting (but not necessarily acting upon) abuse or questionable posts. 

Hmm.  I'd like to see more action here, too...like you, I can check back several times a day.  After a few days of not seeing much change, though, I drop back to nearly never.  Anyway...HTH.

PS As I go to sign this, I realized that another reason it seems impersonal around here is the lack of names in sig lines.  I'm certain we're all concerned about security.  But let me be the first to throw caution to the wind and introduce myself.  Hi, I'm....

Krystal

This is an interesting question.  I don't frequent any other boards, so my only experience is here.  Like Krystal, I don't find hair all that interesting as a topic,  although it is what brings us all here and what we all have in common.  Personally, I find it difficult to jump into the conversations here because there does seem to be a core of people who know each other and I feel like I'm "butting in".  It's my own problem, I'm not implying that anyone has done anything to make me feel unwelcome.  

I have a suggestion, let's ask each other questions -here's mine --  do you drink tea, and if so, what is your favorite kind and do you use lemon or milk, honey or sugar?  

Here's my answer - I drink Lipton tea.  At home I use honey and soy milk, at work I use sugar and cow's milk.  I also like peppermint tea once in a while to settle my stomach.

Have a nice day!!

As a long time member here, I "hear you".  This is a quiet board, partly because it is associated with the retailing of the upscale hairsticks.  I visit other boards as well, but have always liked the smaller, homey feel of LongLocks over the big, fast moving hair sites.

However, I agree, things have been overyly quiet lately and I have been trying to think of what we can do to liven things up a bit.  The mods here have been planning a Secret Santa exchange, which I'll be posting more info on soon.  We would love to have more postings.... and they DON'T have to be about hair.  Any and all suggestions will be considered. 

Thank you, OldKathy, for opening the subject.

robin

yes i agree it is very quite, rather than checking daily i now check every week because there are so few updates.

I feel one of the things that restrictspeople posting is that there are too many catergories, when i often just want to rant about anything i always struggle to find which section i need to post in or how i can modify what i want to say so that it fits a topic, which restricts posting.

Dont get me wrong i lovew the topics but i feel they would flow naturally from a hair disscussion anyway so a section is uneeded.

Please i am not trying to offend anyone but with so many topics it takes forever to keep going in and out of every single topic when flly exploring the boards.

I just find it restricting. There are people posting but it looks like so few because the topics are so many. There should be a main board for hair no matter what length not just for long hair where u can talk about everuthing and everything about hair not just certain topics. This may bring some new interesting concepts and discussions to the board.

Please dont feel offended i love u guys here but it would better with less restricting and time consuming topics thats all. Most of the other boards i go on have a maximun of 5 topics and they are thriving in discussion because it is not restricted to topics.

If i wanted to chat about bsl hair or dirty blond hair or hair goals or a million and one other things i would have to modify everything to fit in to any of these topics.

The more topics the more a disscussion is broken up however the less topics the more you get to meet others. For example if i only posted in the blond hair board i would get few results because there are few people with blond hair who wouldnt even go into that topic but if i posted something grnerally in one board ill disscuss with everyone. as a blonde i would feel loanly on tha board.

No one wants to come see the same topics everyday. When i go to other boards there are millions of topics because they are not restricted to certain discussions. You want to long on and see new disscussions/different topics about hair you know something different but with topics the discussion never expands outside the topic.

Hope you know what ia ma trying to say

sorry for the rant

thanks curlgirl, like i said i love u guys here because you genuinly care.

Thank you all for your comments about the number of topics.  We will do some thinking on that.  In the meantime - go ahead and post "where ever".  We are not that fussy about where you post.  If it really does belong somewhere else, one of the moderators will make the adjustment, but it would have to be really off the topic for us to do that.

Keep the suggestions coming.... we are listening!

Wow it's great to see so many replies.  I'm not sure if your question about tea was a bit tongue in cheek or not.  But questions do get more replies, especially if they apply to most everyone.  It's great to get to know each other by our posts.  Keep em coming.