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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 886572, member: 112&quot;]Threads come and threads go. How good they are, or how good they are perceived to be, depends largely on the participants. And if the participants don&#039;t participate in just the right way - interest wanes and the thread dies. You guys are the particpants. You guys either make it, or break it. Nobody else can do it but you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think of it this way. Consider an author. He writes an absolutely great book, a bestseller ! Then what ? Do you think bestsellers just fly off the typewriter or computer ? They don&#039;t. It takes a great deal of work. But no matter how much work you put into something, if it doesn&#039;t gel just right, if it doesn&#039;t all come together in just the perfect way - it&#039;s just blah !</p><p><br /></p><p>Well you guys are the authors. You have to do the work. You have to create the bestseller. You write the threads.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now here&#039;s something I discovered by being an editor. When you get a new group together, say a coin club, or a forum, and the club decides that they want articles written for the club. At first the articles just pour in. It seems that everybody has something to offer. Everything is going great. </p><p><br /></p><p>But pretty soon, it all slows down. You find that you have 5 or 6 articles written by this guy, 3 or 4 by that guy, 2 or 3 by this one over here and that one over there. And depending on the size of your group you might have 50 - 75 very good articles. Then it all just comes to a screaming halt !</p><p><br /></p><p>You can beg, you can offer prizes, you can plead with people on your knees to write more, send in more articles. And that might fet you a few more. But after that, you get zip, nada. </p><p><br /></p><p>Why ? Because the authors have already given everything they have and they just don&#039;t have anymore to give. That is - without the proper motivation, inspiration. That&#039;s what it takes to write, motivation and inspiration. You need that seed, that idea, that one special phrase that sparks your fingers into life ! Then the words just fly onto the page. And that great thread is born</p><p>!</p><p><br /></p><p>Take my participation on this forum as an example. Do you think I have all of these words just stuck in my brain waiting to come out ? I don&#039;t. It&#039;s up to you to bring them out. You have to ask just the right question. You have to make the incorrect statement, or correct statement that somehow gives me something else to say about it. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s the same thing for everybody else, anybody that has ever put words on paper or an internet page. Every single one of them needs that something that sparks the idea. And it can come from anywhere, anywhere ! But without that spark - nada. And you folks, every single one of you - provide those sparks.</p><p><br /></p><p>So if you want great threads - let&#039;s see the sparks <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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