Guide to becoming a moderator on CrazyEngineers!

[The_Big_K]

Originally Posted by sauravgoswami

wat is the history of crazy engineers..how it all started,how u all maintain it!!!

Start of CE is an interesting story. I'll write about it soon.

How we maintain it? Hmm. Well could you split it in specific questions?

[sauravgoswami]

who funds theis forum??and how u maintain the servers & flow of visitors???

[The_Big_K]

CE is self-funded by yours truly. The servers are in the US of A. The flow of visitors is mostly through Google searches (we're very well indexed there) ,through word-of-mouth publicity & referrals through websites & other forums that link to here.

The reason we get so much traffic is that we've some unique discussions over here and fantastic people. We need to improve on the activities though. The word of mouth has worked fantastically well for CE. I continue to receive emails saying the site is useful - from professors to students to working professionals. I'm very happy that we all are building a great community & we great things are about to follow.

Alright, I went little off track .

[sauravgoswami]

its ok!!everyone shud take pride of its creation,so how come so many indians out here,really speaking mate,in other forums there are too few active members from india

[The_Big_K]

That's true. CE is an international forum! We're accessed from over 150 countries.

Majority of CEans are from India, probably because India produces a huge number of Engineers every year. Most of the Indian visitors are here to get ready-made project ideas, reports and free stuff - that's unfortunate; but its a fact. They request for a seminar topics & ideas, post their email ids and go away forever hoping that someone will send everything to their email id for free

We need lot of active members to make things happen - from all parts of the world. CE's strength lies in collaboration of brilliant engineers from various parts of the world.

[Gosh, am I going off-track again? I just can talk for hours about CE you know.]

[ash]

Well.. I can guess there are also lots of members from India because of the good efforts to promote CE there too

I'll try to do my bit in Malaysia.. *ahem*

You know, I still fail to search for an engineering online forum in Malaysia. In fact, my uni's engineering forum came up as a near top hit, lol. But its very inactive unfortunately

I'd like to promote CE there, but need to spark some activity first.. or else It'll be blatant spamming. I only just recovered my password cause I havent logged on for so long that I forgot it!

[The_Big_K]

Well Ash, you know what? We never did any kind of proactive advertising. The growth was purely due to word of mouth.

There was an incidence where on guy asked me to check out CrazyEngineers because he thought it's a very cool site .

We should be proud of our community - lot of engineers find it very useful!

Well, I think we need to create evangelists who'll go out and talk about CE.

[sauravgoswami]

I dont think it needs any publicity at the most we can do is opeb chapters on diffrent countries,and manage member of that country through them,participation in local culture will give us a new dimension and expand our base further!!!