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Investy
Senior Member
My humble opinion is that this site is too complex, daunting, with too many individual sections which results in people not bothering to get involved.
I often find myself confused with navigation even though Ive been here a while, but the same is not true of say housepricecrash.co.uk where its very easy to navigate
IMAGINE YOU STUMBLED ACCROSS THIS SITE;
You want to find out about where to invest - do you go into property for sale, or buy to let, or how about the main board (which is not apparant it is a main discussion board - I just happen to know it is).
I personally think if you have to many boards, people intereact and get involved less as they dont 'stumble' accross coversations, they have to actively seek them out.
The Moroccan forum for example has sub forums for certain groups of people - I think this causes lower interaction and engagment as people hive off into little groups much of the time
THE SUPERMARKET APPROACH
Super markets deliberately cause users to 'wander' seemlesly thru the store in order to cause the user to engage on a greater level.
If you have most people concentrated on one main discussion panel I think you might find a lot more interaction - for example someone might post on a main board that Dubai is great - and I will be drawn in, whereas with it being tucked away I would currently have to take the conscious decsion to go to that section.
Also there are many non useful marketing approaches - often just 2 lines that really clutter the place up and often those OPs have little interest in debate. They also often Im afraid come accross as intectually challenged - with no mention for example of how easy it is to repatriate funds or set up a will, instead just some useless nonsense along the lines of "buy here, its really great and last year went up 8%"
Just my 2 penneth
I often find myself confused with navigation even though Ive been here a while, but the same is not true of say housepricecrash.co.uk where its very easy to navigate
IMAGINE YOU STUMBLED ACCROSS THIS SITE;
You want to find out about where to invest - do you go into property for sale, or buy to let, or how about the main board (which is not apparant it is a main discussion board - I just happen to know it is).
I personally think if you have to many boards, people intereact and get involved less as they dont 'stumble' accross coversations, they have to actively seek them out.
The Moroccan forum for example has sub forums for certain groups of people - I think this causes lower interaction and engagment as people hive off into little groups much of the time
THE SUPERMARKET APPROACH
Super markets deliberately cause users to 'wander' seemlesly thru the store in order to cause the user to engage on a greater level.
If you have most people concentrated on one main discussion panel I think you might find a lot more interaction - for example someone might post on a main board that Dubai is great - and I will be drawn in, whereas with it being tucked away I would currently have to take the conscious decsion to go to that section.
Also there are many non useful marketing approaches - often just 2 lines that really clutter the place up and often those OPs have little interest in debate. They also often Im afraid come accross as intectually challenged - with no mention for example of how easy it is to repatriate funds or set up a will, instead just some useless nonsense along the lines of "buy here, its really great and last year went up 8%"
Just my 2 penneth