Attracting New Members?

So from looking around at other sites, and my own experience in hunting for other RP sites, I have two ideas that might be helpful in attracting new members, and in getting new members involved immediately in the site!
1.  Posting more Wanted Ads
2. Site-wide threads/events that can be joined at any time
Thoughts? Ideas for site-wide events?

I was going to hold off on discussions of site-wide events until we got our sea-legs back, but I suppose there's no harm in putting out some ideas. We didn't get very far with the whole Novum thing, so we could just reboot that. Other than that, it'd be a bit too early for me to get into new plot idea since I'm still in the process of picking up where my characters left off.

Then again, we could do anything from a school dance to a science fair as an event, just depends on what we're looking for. Plot heavy or social heavy. Social heavy might be better for the sake of getting characters reacquainted, as well as giving new members opportunities to interact with and introduce them to our backlog of characters.

As for wanted ads, I don't have the best experience with them, but I could get to work on some if people were interested in them.

I wouldn't say you should force yourself to post wanted ads if you aren't really looking, but mostly just a reminder that we do have a wanted ads section!

I agree that social heavy is probably a good idea.

I mentioned it in the discord and I know y'all saw it, but I figured it'd be good to bring it into a public space, too: sitewide plot idea hee hoo, it'd be pretty simple and easy to engage with for random threads. Doesn't fulfill the "social heavy" thing, but we can always have multiple plots going at once! & it'd be more of a "temporary world plot" thing than like, a big impending doom plot.

Copypasted from the discord because I'm lazy:
"I have these twins who are architectural geniuses, and to go along with the idea of the site reopening, i think itd be interesting if they came to town to renovate the building, & perhaps add a new wing to it. but their architecture is weird and doesn't make sense and is kind of impossible. so i was thinking that like... this new wing is just being finished up and is still closed to students, but those who sneak in get like. hopelessly lost. impossible hallways, disappearing doors, etc etc. Maybe someone goes missing, too. the reconstructed bits are normal but still off, just weird-ass decorative choices and slightly impossible architectural additions. Fun stuff like that.

i was thinking it could be neat bc like, 1 its representative of the site's reopening, but also it's a pretty open plot addition that anyone can do whatever they want with, and if someone decides to inquire into my twins that's cool too but not really necessary bc the building exists outside of them!"

I think in addition to this idea, it might be a fun idea to set up our present rps as if the semester were just re-starting, maybe there's a beginning of year dance to go along with it. We can introduce characters again, meet some new folks, let some mischief happen. And because of the building's construction over the summer, if some mischevous kids wanted to sneak around, the weird closed-off wing could be fun to tie into it, too. Who knows! Oh, the possibilities!

On the "Wanted Ads" front, I'm not great at those but I can post our ads on some sites again. I did make a very cool gif banner just for the site that hasn't gotten some love in a while lol. I don't mind going on an advertising spree again!

I don't know how they're doing it in the modern age now, but the quickest way for traffic was top site lists and advertising on other forums. Just think to yourself how you found this website in the first place, was it from another forum? Was it from google? I'd take that into consideration for finding new people.

These methods aren't meant to bring people to the site necessarily, but to help entice them to join once they're already here I suppose. Dunno, I just noticed on other sites that guests were often looking at the wanted ads.

I mean, wanted ads aren’t something I usually do, but if I dedicated enough time to it, I could probably come up with some interesting stuff. It’s just that in my experience wanted ads don’t get used very often.

Again though, Sky’s idea is pretty cool and not something we’ve tried before, so I’d be down with that.

As for a social event, dances are always good for some spicy drama. Although, it would be nice if it had a theme. Like, one year we did a Masquerade Ball where members posted as guests and we had to figure out who was who based on what they wrote for their characters. I’m trying to think of a theme that would lend itself to some interesting roleplay opportunities, but I’m drawing a blank on that front. I know nothing about dances.

(*Cough* I literally just used wanted ads *cough*)