# How should Discourse System Market itself? **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-discourse-system-market-itself/57221 **Category:** Self-hosting **Tags:** hosting **Created:** [10. Februar 2017 um 19:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-discourse-system-market-itself/57221 "2017-02-10T19:15:39Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 5
### Author: ![xiasummer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/xiasummer/32/82790_2.png) [@xiasummer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xiasummer) #### Post date: [10. Februar 2017 um 20:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-discourse-system-market-itself/57221/5 "2017-02-10T20:39:30Z")
Hi, glad to see your feed back. These days, I’m thinking about the Value of a Foum in a The Current World (You see, most people read by Phone rather than Computer, people mostly use Google + Facebook/Twitter/Quora/Wechat/Zhihu ) In my opinion, Discourse is quite beautiful, but not so good at popularize itself. And a not so active community means **DIE!!!**. - It’s quite neat, neat is beautiful, but not making people additicted to it. Many websites uses subscribtion system, make people remember logging in **everyday**. - Many websites Use **invitation for bonus** system, make people keep inviting their friends - Many websites use **bonus system** , like **user level** (which often has 10 even 100 levels, rather than 4 levels in Discourse) or **Forum Coin** , to make people feel that they has gain sth, to make them feel the stimulation / motivation. - Many websites use **evaluation system**. You see, people go to the forum to read **valuable posts**. The not so valuable posts should be ranked lower and the valuable ones should be upper. If the discourse just makes **All the stuffs there** , then who will want to read these ? # Have to say it again. Not so active communities will **DIE!!** * * * Your can read more here: > [@What is the exact Meaning of The Community Spirit?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-exact-meaning-of-the-community-spirit/56882): > > Hi, I always hear about the Community Spirit, while I searched the community, I didn’t find a good post talking about such “Community Spirit” and its development. Rather, I’ve read something about the chinese discourse forum [https://meta.discoursecn.org/t/topic/1675](https://meta.discoursecn.org/t/topic/1675)[https://meta.discoursecn.org/t/topic/1640](https://meta.discoursecn.org/t/topic/1640) Here we discussed what is the vitality of a forum when there already being facebook, twitter, zhihu, weibo, wechat, etc. When almost all the reading are based on cell phone, what kind of … > [@If the forum wants to accumulate good posts, shouldn't we have some stimulation/motivation system?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/if-the-forum-wants-to-accumulate-good-posts-shouldnt-we-have-some-stimulation-motivation-system/57146): > > I was thinking what exactly the community spirit is, and suddenly it comes to my mind that shouldn’t it be very natural that we should have a stimulation / motivation method if we want to collect good thinking? I know there are already user level system and badge system. But it’s easy to know that both are very poor at stimulating people. The user level system only have a few levels. The badge system is better, but there are many when first using the forum, when you use it long, the new badge… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-discourse-system-market-itself/57221)._