Just some thoughts on your comments. Not trying to be too critical...
Hi,
I have some ideas and finally some free time to be more proactive about life extension, so I might be interested in taking it over. I would want to do a bit of an overhaul of it.
My ideas would be:
1. To have less info, as at the moment its information overload for a newbie.
On the front page there is very little if any information provided. What exactly do you have in mind to cut? Most of it is images and stuff now, with very little verbage.
2. Have the forum take up much more of the space rather than having it at the bottom in a very small space, definitely clean up the spam for the last few months.
Unfortunately, the area of the forum is set by MySpace and is unmoveable. You can change the top area all you want with sufficient html editing skills. I totally agree on the spam. We used to police it rather heavily, but it takes constant day to day policing or it builds up.
3. I would like its primary goals be for people to donate to mprize, and for people to discuss life extension.
Of course. This is the stated goal of the group, and would not change. Some of the other groups with only a few hundred members are explicitly for MPrize or other goals.
4. I would be surprised if many people have actually looked at the embedded video I think the long running time is pretty daunting, maybe a more concise 5-10 minute introduction would draw people in more and get them excited.
Totally understandable. I actually raised this point with Jeff awhile back, but we just kind of defaulted into that video because it was the best one at the time. Another shorter one would probably be optimal, if you have one in mind.
5. Also potentially to broaden the appeal, by including such subjects as cosmetic surgery. I do think that tapping into peoples desire to stay young and beautiful is a rich source of people who would be willing to make the leap from just skin deep to the whole body.
Hmm, I don't know about this. We would want to stay on topic, but I can see that a slightly more cosmetic approach might be helpful. I am actually fairly good with graphic design stuff and have created some images in the past with young(er) looking females that expressed a youthful image with text and whatnot to draw people in to various projects.
Do you know if its possible to get any stats on how many people click on a particular link or watched a video?
Well, I uploaded the video on the front page now, so I have access to the full stats via Google videos, but they don't tell stats for individual web pages, just overall viewership stats. There are a lot that view that particular video every day, but it is linked from several different places, so I do not know how many are from that page.
Also how was the initial promotion of the site achieved?
A variety of means. The biggest and most popular way I would rather not comment about in the open forums right here for a variety of reasons. If you PM me I can fill you in on the details, (I don't want to get ImmInst in any trouble for things not sanctioned by leadership)
Is it possible to mail all of the members?
I believe this is possible, yes.
How much time would you say you spent on cleaning up spam?
Well, me and Jeff both used to spend a ton of time cleaning up spam. Recently, none, but in the past (awhile back now) it was fairly rigorous. Originally it was meant as kind of a "soft" landing space for people, since ImmInst can be a bit daunting when you first land here.
Much more info can be found in the original thread on this group:
http://www.imminst.o...ST&f=142&t=6514
