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Archive for August, 2007

Colts “cred” begins to take shape

We’ve been so busy dealing with the technical issues of mycolts.net that we haven’t had much time to execute our community building tactics.
One such tactic is a social currency we call “Colts Cred”, which is a reputation system that assigns each community member a rating based on how often their content gets viewed and [...]

How many members can we hold?

When you’re building a healthclub, you have to have enough stairmasters and treadmills to accomodate peak periods, but not so many that that you make your club too big. Real estate and utility bills may swamp you if you don’t have enough members paying dues. If you have 1,000 members, you might only need 20 [...]

MyColts research for fun and profit

Surveys are proving to be one of the most popular and the most reviled features inside mycolts. People love to create surveys, but some folks are using surveys to stock up on “colts cred”, which causes other members to get too many sureys in their inboxes.
Alas, pleasing all the people all the time remains our [...]

Taste test: New Colts versus Old Colts

I think we’re doing the right thing, but there’s always “New Coke” to think about

In a few short weeks, MyColts has already grown as large as our fan forum on colts.com, which has been around for several years. We believe it has the potential to surpass not just forum traffic. It could grow larger than [...]