Hello fellow Litmocracieans (hmm..will need to find a better term...),
I’ve been meaning to start this thread for a while, but always pushed back to later because, well, I wanted to deliver it with a POW. I now realize that the more I wait, the less POW, so here, I’m just writing it as it comes.
For all of us who enjoy coming here, and writing, and reading, and helping each other out with comments and encouragements, Litmocracy is a great place. In the beginning, I was here every day, posting, replying, and offering suggestions. Life has a way to take over sometimes, and I am often away for a while - although never forgetting about the site.
Now this may seem harsh for those of you who are here on a regular basis, but I think one of the reasons it is so easy for me to let life get in the way is that I could sometimes (as most of you I am sure) wait for days until someone replied, or posted a comment. So I thought to myself: no biggie if I’m not on tonight, there probably isn’t anyone logged in at the moment...Which is completely normal within a small community of regulars who each have a life and live in different time zones. Not to mention that a lot of us spend our time on Litmocracy working on submissions, not hanging out in the forums.
This is why we need to build a bigger community. And I don’t mean a tighter community, because I think that we already have that - that’s what’s so great about this place. At any one time, even if just a few of us are online, I know I can count on any one of you to read, comment, and be honest in your suggestions.
What I’ve been doing is posting ads for the site around town. Hoping that someone picks it up and checks it out, then shares with friends and family if they like what they see...and it’s working a little bit, slowly but surely. I don’t know how many regulars I create out of this, but hey, at least it’s a start.
If you’d like to use the flyers / poster to advertise in your own area, you can access them here, here and here. The first two are meant to be printed front / back (3 flyers per page), and the third one is a poster.
Have any of you been doing something similar, or something completely different to try and promote the site? I think if all of us pitched in, we’d have a better chance of attracting writers - and publishers.
I thought of starting this thread to get ideas going, or to hear what everyone is doing, in the hope that we can keep building on a community that is already, in my heart at least, a family.
Cheers 
-Star
