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I'm still relatively new here. But when I joined things were pretty slow. I remember posting about it once. I just joined the HorrorDVDs forum recently too. It's slow over there as well. There is a videogame forum called Neogaf which I'm not a member. But they have an off topic section with horror topics that seem to get a lot of posts. I don't know if it's from the same group of people. But they have yearly Halloween movie watching things. And other "what horror movie are you watching" type of topics too.
I thought this was the go to place for horror. I think I saw a person from horror.com on one of the Starz horror specials once. I don't use Facebook so I don't know what's going on there. I only check it for company news on rare occasions. For personal stuff, it seems to be full of the look what I did, saw, got type of posts. Same goes for twitter. Forums still seem to be a good place. Provided they don't get out of hand with irrelevant posts. Maybe this forum just needs some new advertising to let people know this is the place for horror chats. Perhaps people don't know which forum to join or something. I know I asked about that Lovecraft complete book a few days ago and no one got back to me here. I had to search for comparisons on a few Lovecraft forums. You would think people here would be more into this stuff. I don't know. 
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02-13-2013, 08:10 AM
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I agree that forums are kind of an old medium. I find most people go to forums when they have questions or want recommendations.
Someone comes in and posts, "what movie is this?", they get their answer (or they don't) and then they don't come back. I was over at Bloody-Disgusting for many years. I only visited this forum because the Bloody-Disgusting forum changed designs and I hated it. I still wanted to occasionally discuss films and look for recommendations, etc. so I started an account here. I actually like it here more than I ever did at Bloody-Disgusting. I honestly love the polls and tournaments here and how much work V puts into a lot of that stuff. I wish more people where here and participated. But I don't think anything is really going to make things more active. I agree with V that it doesn't help that the genre doesn't have much going for it right now. I'm so sick of the whole "reality tv" style movies with "lost footage". The franchises are all pretty much dead in the water right now because of the economy and financial issues. I end up watching SyFy Channel movies just because at least a Giant Shark jumping out of the water and eating a plane that's 30,000 feet in the air is laughably entertaining. But back to the forums, they're a lot like life. People drift in and out of our lives, much the same way users do on forums. I admit I do it. I go a few months on some forums and then come back for a while and post everyday, then I get busy with life for a while and disappear again. I honestly haven't been watching many horror movies these days and when I do, it's usually old ones I've seen before. I like to look through the "recently watched" to see if there's something that maybe catches my eye, but I don't have any real "questions" about horror movies to post about. I've been trying to come here everyday just to vote in tournaments and the like because I think they are a lot of fun and I know V puts in a lot of work and time putting them together.
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^ I agree.
I think a lot of it is that the site owner has pretty much gave up. Horror.com hasn't been updated since Halloween. 3 months and nothing new. I agree about the Tourney's. I always like seeing whats the next round picks. Also, I think that after about 3 pages it seems like every new post dies. advertising....advertising....advertising...
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Personally, I think the issue is getting a critical mass of folks on at the same time. When I was much more active - probably 6 years ago or so - I could pop on while at work and the second you would post, someone wouldp post back. There were lots of "This or That" threads and you could almost always get into a conversation. Now, I pop by when I can (busier, older, etc.) but if I post it languishes for hours or when I see threads they are from days ago. That's why the tournaments still work - you can post on them every once in awhile but not really need to have any immediate responses. When HDC was rocking, it was more like a chat room than a forum -that's what i miss about the place.
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A lot of people here do seem to be from overseas. But I doubt that's a big reason for not posting.
Maybe people are moving towards forums that aren't so focused on one theme?
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