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10 Species of creatures that call your discussion forum: Home

Category: Newsletters/Newsgroups Date: 2001-04-12
The better you understand the lurkies, ignoramies, askies and moderaties that make your discussion forum their home, the better you can cater for their needs - and get them to stay.

Unfortunately it is not possible to define these creatures without referring to other creatures that are only defined later in the article. Please read this article twice to get around this inescapable situation.

A discussion forum is like an ecosystem: you must have a balanced ecosystem by having representatives from all the species discussed below ... too many askies and no experties lead to a barren ecosystem (forum) very quickly.

So just what are askies, experties, ... ?

1) Askies

Definition: Askies ask questions on discussion forums.

Their food: Discussions where experties and moderaties quickly and frequently answer questions.

Their poison: Discussions flooded with spammies where askie questions do not even get noticed.

Implications to you: Keep your discussion forum clean from spammies. Have lots of moderaties and experties to answer askie questions.

2) Lurkies

Definition: A lurkie is someone that reads messages on a discussion forum, but never posts a question or answer themselves.

Their food: Lots of quality value content posted frequently.

Their poison: Having to read through lots of spammie junk before finding practical, relevant, quality discussion threads.

Implications to you: Give lurkies what they want, this will cause them to spread the word about you.

3) Recruities

Definition: Recruities are a sub-species of lurkies, they lurk specifically in order to find someone to recruit.

Their food: Discussions where lots of experties, moderaties and Philantropies live. Here they can look for the best of the best to recruit.

Their poison: Discussions full of spammies, ignoramies, chatties and askies - all useless for recruiting purposes.

4) Rivalies

Definition: Rivalies use discussion forums to study their rivals (competitors). They are also a sub-species of lurkies. In some cases a rivalie will be so impressed by you, that s/he turns into a recruitie.

Their food: Discussions where their rivals frequently post questions and answers. Such forums are the best places to learn about their rivals.

Their poison: Discussions full of spammies, ignoramies, chatties and askies.

Implications to you: Realize that rivalies might read everything you post on your forum as well as anything you post on any other forum.

The good news however is that you can be a rivalie too - visit rival discussion forums to learn about them!

5) Chatties

Definition: A chatty is someone that posts small talk on a discussion forum, eg: how are you, have you seen this on TV, etc.

Their food: Other chatties that just want to chat. Their poison: Discussion forums that do not allow worthless chatties.

Implications to you: Do not ban chatties - they have evolved from being a pre-historic lurkie into a chatty.

Have patience in giving them the opportunity to evolve into the next level of species: the experties.

You can always try and draw them into more value-adding discussions.

6) Ignoramies

Definition: An ignoramie has never posted on a discussion forum. There are millions of adorable ignoramies in the world.

Their food: Discussions where experties and moderaties are very helpful towards them.

Their poison: Discussions that are unfriendly towards them. Discussions where spammies take advantage of their ignorance.

Implications to you: Keep your discussion forum open for ignoramies. You have a golden opportunity to keep ignoramies on your forum if you care for them and feed them properly. You need them to generate work for experties.

7) Philantropies

Definition: Philantropies help askies without posting a link back to their website. Philantropies want to help just for the sake of helping. They do not want to be paid (have their website visited just because they helped someone).

Their food: A discussion swarming with askies and ignoramies.

Their poison: A discussion with many spammies.

Implications to you: Be nice to them - they are nice (and valuable to have around).

8) Experties

Definition: A expertie is someone who answers the questions of askies and sometimes post good tips, without askies asking for it.

Their food: A discussion with lots of askies, lurkies and ignoramies where they can show their expertise.

Their poison: A discussion with many spammies.

Implications to you: Make your discussion forum the preferred habitat for many experties. This species is just one level of evolution from the top of the discussion forum food chain:
the moderaties ...

9) Moderaties

Definition: Moderaties are the most evolved species of discussion forum creatures. Their years of experience in discussion forum jungles qualifies them for their tasks:

- Moderaties keep discussion forums clear from spammies
- Moderaties answer questions from askies
- Moderaties often post useful tips, just like experties
- Moderaties thank philantropies for their contributions
- Moderaties try drawing chatties into more value-adding discussions.
- Moderaties sometimes post a message asking lurkies to join the discussion

Their food: A discussion swarming with askies, lurkies, experties, philantropies, chatties and ignoramies.

Their poison: A deserted discussion forum.

Implications to you: Have many moderaties if you have a thriving discussion forum.

10) Spammies

Definition: Spammies use discussion forums exclusively to get other discussion forum users to buy their products, NOW. Their posts add no value to anything. Quite possibly their products also have no value!

Their food: A discussion without moderaties. Spammies like to take advantage of ignoramies.

Their poison: Moderaties. Everyone. (Everyone hates spammies)

Implications to you: Have lots of moderaties to frequently delete spammies junk. Delete spammie excrement - it stinks and also attracts other spammies.

Discussion forum food all these species LOVE

Practical ideas, contributions, answers, worthwhile links, suggestions, relevant to their needs.

Philantropies, Moderaties, Experties all add value to discussions.

Ignoramies, Lurkies, Askies, Chatties all get value from the discussions.

Spammies mess up discussions (to put it very nicely).

Clearly there are many species that add value or get value from a discussion forum.

Feed the discussion forum creatures that add value or get value with their favourite food.

Feed the creatures you hate with their poison. Help them along their evolutionary path to extinction - on your forum at least.

Evolution of discussion forum species:

Lurkie - Ignoramies - Askies -
Lurkie - Chatties - Askies -

Askies - Experties - Moderaties
Askies - Philantropies - Moderaties

Lurkie sub-species:

- Recruities
- Rivalies

Species with no predecessor species:

- Spammies

Spammies evolved from stinking, disgusting mud.

Spammies have great difficulty in evolving into any useful species. It just goes against their spam, spam, spam beliefs.

It is not possible to give you the full, scientific name of spammies, because they already used up all the exclamation marks in the world ;-)

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