Offer Your Suggestions on How to Grow DU's Marketplace

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9. Some thoughts about this

1. Thanks for raising the issue.

2. It seems that there used to be more posting. Maybe people got discouraged. I've posted a few times but not much recently--I guess I got lazy and distracted. Maybe you'll prompt some of us to post more often.

3. This point may be important for some potential posters. At least in some cases, people do continue to see these posts for a long time. For example, I posted some pro-union pro-worker designs for T-shirts, bumperstickers, buttons, etc. way back on DU2 (www.democraticunderground.com/112077) and that thread continues to get one or two hits almost every day. (In case anyone wonders how I can know if an old DU2 thread gets hits, it's because the thread uses graphics that are hosted on my personal website, so I can see in the traffic for my website that that URL is referencing those graphics. I don't know how people are finding that old thread, but they are.)

4. This thread had 4 recs. I gave it a rec, making 5. I wonder if a thread this old will actually appear on the greatest page? If some threads from here appear on the greatest page, maybe more people will know this group is here. (Not suggesting blanket rec'ing but if somebody posts something cool here, rec it.)