Why isn't this forum more popular?

Did anyone have any other criticisms or anything to say about the forum?

Cricket is pretty big in Perth, a lot of SAF ex-pats too... shame we don't see any Perthians on the forum. I might see what I can do, if any of my mates are interested. Not sure if there are any other Australians on this forum either, looks like it's mostly English and Indian supporters + Spin and Zuhair. Aussies have given up on our team clearly . I think I'm one of those guys who's pretty critical on the Aussie team, where as most supporters are one eyed and only look at praising Australia. Now there's not much to praise, so they probably won't contributed.

People are not removed from the forums simply for disagreeing with a moderator's opinion. However, why should we have to put up with someone being continually obnoxious towards us? That's certainly what happened in the case of the two posters sam_ahmed mentioned in his post, although one of them probably isn't too far away anyway.

I was one of those, viewed the forum heaps but never posted. I was posting on Planet Cricket before and on Cricinfo (comments section) as well as some Facebook pages.
Maybe you can promote the forum more on the home page or link a comment section for articles to the forum.
The forum has enough activity, you just have to wait a bit longer for a response. The worst on Planet Cricket was when you'd get Indians and Pakistanis debating for pages and pages about why Harbhajan is less of a chucker than Saqlain . 3 or 4 more regular posters would be awesome, but you don't need too much more than that. You have to filter our the trolls.

Originally posted by Max Power I think in the past some of the more 'active' members have been removed from the forum for simply disagreeing with the moderators point of view, which will certainly lower the level of participation. Moderation is obviously a good thing. Over-moderation is simply going to turn people away.

I think in the past some of the more 'active' members have been removed from the forum for simply disagreeing with the moderators point of view, which will certainly lower the level of participation.

Moderation is obviously a good thing. Over-moderation is simply going to turn people away.

CW use to be very lively at times in the past, a lot of posters have gone away, maybe due to commitment, I don't know.

Well I've got to say things are really getting dull around here. So much so I’ve taken a look around the net today and there are cricket sites with shed loads of traffic, but as usual this forum is dead in the water. Shame really as I like this site, but no one posts. The main difference with this site as opposed to others is that the other five sites I visited today all have an off topic.

Aussies are competitive and I have no problem with that - they tend to thrash the opposition badly with some solid Sledging - I've seen a bit in the press hammering the West Indies real badly.

Your progress has been outstanding matey. Your frequency is really good. when I first had an interaction with an Aussie on tis forum - it wasn't a pleasant one. But things have changed since you and bladey have come.

Clapo was a very good poster!  Daisy seems to have given up on Cricket now that Lara is gone, that really took a toll on her.   Bondy and Samache were good too.  Kerm as well and TCA use to keep things alive.

Originally posted by zuhair_abbasi WG, Claop, Kerm, TCA, 143 are ones I can recall were good posters and knew how to keep the forum alive.

143,Kerm and TCA I've seen and I've noticed the occasional post from WG but I don't remember Claop!

Originally posted by milkman I do it all the time matey! We have enough regular contributors I guess, but a few more would do no harm. Nearly all posts are in the current matches or games areas... we don't have any general discussion anymore which sucks.

Yeah,we need a few more,but it's certainly livening up from a little while ago when we only had about 5 or so regular posters as Dips was doing things(exams I think.) and Spin wasn't on very often.(That was just a little while before you came along I think!)

You forgot me milks. But even I am not as regular as I used to be. The forum has indeed become a dull place. I've been here since 2006 and over the last five-six months I have always felt that this is not the CW of old.

Originally posted by milkman Oh sorry. he posts more than me these days. This is a special post right now dedicated to Spin_Wizard

Possible the funniest thing about people saying who is on consistantly is that they inveriably miss someone!