Sub-Forum for Pets and Animal Lovers - Need Founding Members!

Dear IL'ites,

I see some threads on pets here and there. Given how pets are part of family in many households, I was thinking that a forum for "Pets and Animal Lovers" would be welcomed here.

But, I don't want to open a sub-forum and not have it active (as it doesn't give a good impression about our site to the onlooker). So, I wanted to see if there are atleast 5 founding members for this sub-forum. As a founding member, you will help with building momentum for this sub-forum by..

a. Opening ~5-7 new threads per week and
b. Making ~25 new posts per week

The intent of the threads/posts is to bring a range of discussion topics that motivate members to participate. With 5 members doing that just for a month, the forum will have enough momentum to keep going on its own.

Please update in this thread if you are willing to be a founding member of "Pets and Animal Lovers" Forum. Look forward to your active participation. Thank you.

 

Hi Sriniketan, thanks for being the first to respond to this thread. With your support, this sub-forum will be very active. Just as a reminder, we need founding members to start at least 5-7 new threads and 25 posts per week to help this nascent sub-forum gather momentum. Thanks Sriniketan.

Hi Nandhu, I am sure there are so many pet lovers here but they are probably staying quiet just like everyone else. Once the founding members start threads and discussions about pets, these pet lovers will come out of the woodwork and start participating.

Hi Paulina, Thanks for the enthusiastic response. Pet discussions had been a chicken and egg story. Pet lovers say that they don't see interesting/informative threads on this topic for them to contribute. But, without their contributions, there is no threads. We wanted to break that cycle and that is why we came up with the idea of founding members.

If founding members can build and sustain this sub-forum's activity (with initial threads and posts) for 1-2 months, that gives pet lovers the opportunity to join in. Once these silent members join, then the sub-forum will sustain on its own momentum. Just as a reminder, during the initial month or so, founding members will start ~5-7 threads and 25 posts per week. Thanks Paulina for joining in as a founding member!

 

Hi Paulina,

No, you haven't missed anything. We now have three founding members - Sriniketan, Nandshyam and you!. We haven't started the sub-forum yet, because we need two more founding members. We think that we need 5 people starting 5-7 threads per week and 25 posts/week to build the momentum needed. I will post information about the Pet lovers forum in a couple more threads. Thanks for the interest.

 

Hi Anu, Sorry to hear about Rani (nice name!). She has left you with some wonderful memories. These are the types of threads that will go into the proposed "Pet Lovers Forum".

We haven't started that sub-forum yet, as we need two more founding members. Would you be interested in becoming a founding member? For more information about the requirements to be a founding member of the Pet lover forum, please see the first post in this thread. Hope you can join in and we can get this sub-forum started soon. Thank you.