Forum:Research Polls

Okay, as you know, virtually everywhere off the mainspace is dead nowadays. The War Room, Forums, Admin Requests, even Chat isn't as active as it used to be. But the question is: WHY? Why are new users not making an input off the mainspace? Do they even know that there isn't just a mainspace?

And here's my solution to it. At risking of breaking COD:NOT, but at the same time proposing an idea that has proven to have worked, is following what I've done on Bandipedia. Now, what I've done is started a research poll in order to boost the attention of our new Twitter account, and I've set them up in the past to give me analytics on the forums and why people aren't using them. Because of this, I'm now aware that people can't be bothered, or aren't aware of any forums going on, but activity has definitely increased because I know why people aren't using the forums so I have catered the forums to what the community wants.

Why aren't we doing this here? It would boost activity if we knew what people wanted to see on the forums and similar, and if people knew that these places even existed. It really wouldn't take much, my research polls are always on the home page but with the wiki we could put them on weekly news articles, use a pop-up message to direct the user to a polls page, you see all of this is possible but we're not doing it, therefore stagnating the progression of the forums, and allowing them to even regress.

Before I start a vote, (might do it in poll form just for the irony) I think we should discuss the issue a bit more and get viewpoints on the wiki using research polls in order to see if it would be a good idea or not. Fire away!