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HELP KEEP THIS PLACE RUNNING!
buddroyce:
I actually spoke to the folks at DiMarzio years ago at NAMM about just giving them the forum. This was around the same time I sold CaparisonForum.com to the new owners of Caparison Guitars. While I didn't get a chance to speak to Larry DiMarzio, I do recall the general consensus was that they wanted to keep this place fully fan driven and not moderated/filtered by the company, allowing us to freely express our opinions on any of their products. If there's a problem with their products or their marketing, you can post about it here and you know your opinions won't be moderated by me or any of the other mods(which I think at the current time of writing may just be me LOL). It might be different now, I haven't asked them about it in a long time.
Activity wise, we're in a rather unique space. While we don't get the same exposure the Duncan forum does, we're doing ok. Our demographic is quite strange as we tend to get more seasoned players than we do brand new guys. I mean it's way more common for me to see posts here by guys asking about wiring questions or pickup recommendations for a guitar that already has aftermarket pickups looking for a different tone over guys asking for pickup recommendations for a completely stock guitar.
--- Quote from: gtrjunior on April 06, 2018, 08:18:01 AM ---What I'd like to know is, what can we do to get this to be a more active forum? I love Dimarzio pickups but yet I find myself on the Duncan forum FAR more often than I'm here. The Duncan forum is very active with lots of various discussions.
I'd love for this place to resemble that forum. What are they doing right and this forum doing wrong?
We need to find a way to liven this place up...
I'd likely be more apt to donate to this forum IF it were a place that I came to regularly. I'm sure others feel the same.
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That's a good question that I wish I had an answer for. The weird thing is that since this is an open community, how lively it is is entirely up to you folks who make up the community. Aside from coming back more frequently, sending people here to have their questions answered maybe you folks can write in to DiMarzio and get them to link us again or maybe you can contact their community managers about taking over this place.
Realistically speaking, I don't expect anyone to actually make any donations and I'm ok with that. I keep this place going so I can hang out with a great bunch of people who share the same passion for pickups.
Orkhan Julfa:
--- Quote from: gtrjunior on April 06, 2018, 08:18:01 AM ---Hey man! I've been a member here for a little while now but tbh I don't visit all that often....
What I'd like to know is, what can we do to get this to be a more active forum? I love Dimarzio pickups but yet I find myself on the Duncan forum FAR more often than I'm here. The Duncan forum is very active with lots of various discussions.
I'd love for this place to resemble that forum. What are they doing right and this forum doing wrong?
We need to find a way to liven this place up...
I'd likely be more apt to donate to this forum IF it were a place that I came to regularly. I'm sure others feel the same.
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Duncan pickups just more popular. It seems like they care more about promotion than DiMarzio. So there are more Duncan users and that is why their forum is more active.
DarthPhineas:
--- Quote from: Orkhan Julfa on April 19, 2018, 05:58:31 PM ---Duncan pickups just more popular. It seems like they care more about promotion than DiMarzio. So there are more Duncan users and that is why their forum is more active.
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yes, they do seem to be more active in their promotion and in targeting recruits for their forum. however, they have been known to look at social media and their forum as a #s game to be able to say "we have more than so-and-so company has". there was also a bit of a scandal a few years back when their social media person (who has since been released from the company) was caught up in something to do with 'click farming'.
Orkhan Julfa:
Never heard about this. But it is funny for me.
Anyway I wonder why DiMarzio not so active with promotion.
andrus108:
I know the answer to why it's so quiet here. Dimarzio pickups make people play their guitar more and spend less time on the internet, while Duncan players are more often dissatisfied with what they have and spend more time discussing which other pickup they need to try, only to fail the quest for tone again and be back writing more...
:-D
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