Nothing is happening on inditalk or for that matter on the forum, i wonder why?

Inditalk and Indiforum are totally member dependent areas... so what can an admin or two moderators do to keep it rocking?

1. Inditalk used to be active. At one time, there was such activity that there used to be 8 or 9 ppl at once, and I had to keep refreshing archives to stay in loop. of late, that has reduced. There is no rule that people shd be active on forum, or on inditalk for that matter. It is placed there so people can interact, and that interaction is a personal choice of course. Some use it, some don't, some might be busy to use it. Link spamming is caught, but not to get the user banned, but just to tell to him/her, that be careful, it isn't meant for link giving, and not complying might get a ban. Being inactive doesn't give a right or option to go over the rules and ethics of this forum.
2. See, your blog post is interesting to you. If you post it on this forum, you are promoting your posts. If thousands of bloggers do the same by creating new threads each day saying, "This is damn good, come read, come comment, come promote" then there leaves no room for discussions to happen on the forum. That huge amount of threads would be heavy on the server and cause trouble to others using the forum, or other features like the Indivine (which is used to promote your posts and share interesting posts). If people aren't promoting, then that is again, a matter of interest and personal choice of that blogger. Indiblogger gives the option, a platform, not a force to promote, or even to read for that matter :)
3. Observations and feedback.. if someone reads your posts, the best place to give u feed back is on ur blog. Not on the Indiblogger forum. 
4. Use it like Twitter... if u have sixty more characters on Inditalk, go ahead and interact. Inditalk isn't Twitter my friend, that people come share their links and tweet there. There is limited visibility, if hundreds and thousands of bloggers come leave their links on Inditalk minute after minute, your post will not get any time in that one spotlight don't u think? If u want to really promote and get ur posts visibility, then the best way, maybe the only proper way is to go read other blogs and get people back to your blog through a comment, so u build a network. Indi forum and Indi talk isn't a place for making ur blog posts validated. 
5. If putting links and promoting with them on Indiforum and Inditalk is what you would call giving it life, I beg to disagree. It'd open a Pandora's box, rather than giving it life. I have had experiences where people give links, and then just leave it off and go, and lash out at those who would like to see this forum maintained cleanly as well. As for mods and admins giving it life, injecting it with life, that is again something that is in Indibloggers' hands. There are discussions that are fun, helpful as well, but not every thread is useful to every person, so the forum is not as active as people would like. 

ok, so all the suggestions were useless, that's ok but how do you liven up the forum or would you let it lie and die......

btw inditalk can be bigger than twitter, atleast for India.

Look buddy, I'm really happy that you brought this fact 'inditalk not so active off late' to the light coz for a while it was humming in my mind... but neither any one of us, nor any moderator/admin can make it lively with single handed efforts... from our part we can try.... how?... if it's indiforum, we can start some discussion on something, start any game/challenge etc and if it's inditalk we can text a hi whenever we log into indiblogger.... in any 2 way/multi way communication platform we can't improve things from one side right?.... just do your part... sometimes encourage other members to do their parts too....

@arunoy I think the mistake lies in  trying to define something which is beginning to evolve. By doing so you are limiting the potential of this resource. If this was conceived and created by someone with a vision, we should know immediately that instead of trying to define it we should take it further on the path of evolution to where it is headed. If you leave it to the mods and admin you are effectively distancing yourself from the project.

Generally, mods and admin will be trying hard to define their roles and stick to that (therein lies the tragedy). Whether they want to rise above their role is entirely upto them( if they believe they are members first and anything else later).

I don't see any restrictions which are holding us down. It is up to the members to explore and exploit the full potential of this opportunity in front of us. If the forum is active the mods and admin will be on their toes to do their roles well. Each one of us should do our bit to contribute posts which may go on to become sticky posts( norms of the forum). 

Thanks for the post and the points you have raised. My intention is to have a healthy discussion(and less arguments and war of words) and make this place even better.

Therein lies a tragedy... I don't know. I am a member of Indi first. Always have been. Been active on this forum over two years at a minimum. And I am delighted to have contributed as one. But I am not limited by a role of a Indipolice that I do voluntarily. some things call for me to think as a Indipolice first, to look at if the topic benefits. And to make sure it doesn't turn out into a link hub. What you or someone else might find freeing, it might actually restrict others, and vice versa. Hence the guidelines. They can be found in the guidelines thread for new members, details on indivine, non allowing of links on Inditalk, details of other parts of the site etc.

Ok. I should not be placing links to my indivine post in order to get someone to read my posts. 

 @ Animesh (only animesh please)I am scared to go back to your chat archives. The 'yo', the 'hi' will put me to sleep, don't mind. I don't look back and this is how I find my way by barging on regardless.

Yeah, I have gone through a lot of threads, faqs and am beginning to understand that this place is laid back and far too relaxed.

I wanted to stir things up but seem to have offended a few people. Sorry about that but I think I should go back to my writing and come back after some time.

You seem to be the defensive type and I am the unorhodox basher, should find a lot of interesting things to share...maybe later. 

Hi Hemal shah,indi talk is a chat forum and people saying hi, ho, hello is hardly the way to go forward. I put up my suggestions and if you have better suggestions , do come forward and share them. I will not only accept them, I will implement them. But what suggestions do I get? Zilch!

I don't know if we should be tolerant enough to allow this chat forum to settle down to groans, yawns and half hearted attempts at connecting. If you have nothing to say , you have nothing to say.

But what got my goat is this Animesh calling me a troll. what have I done which looks like  troll activity.  

LOL ! Groan...Now I don't know where to run.

@udayakumar - There used to be a nice person called Jaykumar. You remind me of him. I think you should find him and bring him back to Indiblogger and both of you should work together to make this a better place for everyone. 

@sorcerorI respect you for being a moderator of this forum

'Moderators are not being paid nor they are getting out so its unfair that moderators will have to listen to all this'  Really, if you have an issue with non payment you know what to do? Don't use that as a stick to beat us with.

Being a moderator on this forum is an honor and that is why you are doing it, I think. if you feel you should be paid, take it up and get it resolved with those who will have answers.

But as a member I have my views to share and I do that because i think I belong here. this forum is as much mine as anybody else's. we may have differences and we can always sort them out by way of discussions and explanations.

"Well, moderators (I am 1 too, btw) can dryhump a rock but I doubt that's going to end well"(your words) ???

I know most members know what 'dryhum*' means but they are moderate enough not to use it, and why are you using such words here. It belongs to the crude west and let it stay there. There is no need to import it into our lingo. If you use such words how will you stop someone from hyperlinking to a graphic video(s)

from youtube about the practical demo of the word 'hum*'. I can do it now, you know, the hyperlink tab is not too from here. And i can conveniently blame it on you

Now what is the 'hum*' of 'dryhum*' doing here on this forum .  if some one uses 'fuc* or "wtf"  will you be able to stop it? and how?

 I have given the members of this forum a feedback, and I am not accusing you of any mis deed. If the members respond to my thread I will respect their views so long as they respect mine.

@ FOOL

Bring him on Fool. But you threw him out, right? And you remind me of a few yourself, you know. 

Anyways, as you said things are dull around here these days. So as long as you don't spam or flame, we are glad of any entertainment you may like to provide to the members. 

I think we all should stop getting on to everyone else's throat. This is not the first time we have got into agruements. 

@Udaya I think you need to take a small breather, look around the forum and then come back. we have had people come very strongly when we stopped them from promoting links on forum or the IndiTalk, and hence this would certainly not be the first time. You do bring up a good point, but there is nothing anyone can forcefully get it done from other bloggers / members of this forum. 

Come up with ideas that makes sense... create a post that would attract people to reply... but posting links and vidoes is no way to achieve it. 

PS: with all due respect to your long enough experience on Internet, I believe you are new here and may not know how it had been, has been, and will be. 

I have come up with an idea that may help all of us bring the forum alive. Lets see how the idea does.

http://www.indiblogger.in/forum/topic.php?id=14581

@hemal No one is at each others throats. If my ideas don't make sense to you that is out of my control. your ideas are good and they are being practiced by the more popular forums where the moderators are .. well moderate and not some fundamnentalists that populate this forum. The idea here seems to put down the others with smart aleck comments and downright crass lingo picked up from the west.

I am new here but we are new to the concept of forums and how a forum is run by admin. and moderators who are far more experienced and balanced in their comments and observations. Obviously mods here are amateurs and give the impression that they are doing this forum a favor. But not to worry, these things get sorted out over a period of time as people learn and mend their ways.

@ sorceror  'dry hump' is not profanity in the literal sense of the word.

People,  go to youtube and type' dry hump' and see what videos you get. I will not try to educate you because this is the age of information and anyone can get access to whatever he is interested in, thanks to the internet. But I can suggest that you educate yourself like I and most others do, self help. first step is to practice moderation at least when you are on this forum

And dear Mod,Please cut out the condescending tone of your post and be careful about how you post or else this discussion will degenerate into an argument and waste of time. 

@ anunoy -  Yeah obscene, lewd movements of the pelvis can be interesting to the voyeur but do they belong here? dry hump is an obscene act which is openly done, even by celebrities in the west. Like it has been said before ' modern dance is a vertical expression of a horizontal intention' but where do you place this other than smut.

@animesh - ok, some mods, not all. sorry about that.