If You Were Inventing the Link List Today...

[Toby]

I do pretty well at getting people to come back day after day. The sharing part, not so well, but I haven't really put much time, thought or effort into that either.

[Bill]

A fully tricked out drupal installation, joomla also, but drupal is arguably more stable, would accomplish a lot of those things I mention.

Thing is, if this would work, presumably some one among us would be trying it. (Perhaps they are and we aren't holding it up as a model? Maybe marc or kit or possibly tommy is trying it on the qt?)
So presumably there is some principle not yet understood?

Porn bbs's work (for sticky) because they allow surfers to earn the equivalent of reputation points with stolen content.

Tubes work because of stolen content, or the appearance of stolen content when purchased or sponsor-provided content is involved.

Stolen content, the thrill of stealing in a heavily regimented and repressive social strata, might be the missing principle.

So - make them feel like they are getting away with stealing = sticky?

[Useless]

So, somewhere between amazingly simple and awesomely complex would be the goal.

In my own fragile opinion, pc and Ramster are on to something with social media/community being a big part of it.

I'll try to add more later, but I'm currently working on my first cup of coffee.

[Useless]

I love the input everyone is contributing. Seeing lots of cool ideas and things to consider.

I'd have no problem not requiring reciprocal links. Hell, I have two lists right now that don't require recips. ( http://www.whoringwives.com and http://www.filthyearl.com ) Content should always be the focus. As several of you have stated, you want/need to build a site that gains links naturally, not forcefully. You have to create the type of pages that people find and want to share. That's where the magic is.

I love pc's idea of using FB applications in order to handle login and commenting. That's a lot easier than scripting your own system that will work across different areas of a site. Plus, most people are probably already logged in to FB while surfing, so they could comment on something without needing to sign up to your own site. And allowing people the ability to comment on pages gives them the feelings of community and ownership. That's a site they'll come back to.

Now, the problem is, what is it that this hybrid monster would publish? Blog posts with embedded images and streaming videos? Galleries? Etcetera? Plus, if you want your "members" to feel like they're part of the site, what can they contribute other than pics of their girlfriends? Chances are, they're going to be post images they took from someone else's site.

Keep the input and feedback coming. By the way, I have no actual intention of creating a project like this in the immediate future. I might tweak PerveSpace a bit to add some of these functions, but I'm not launching anything huge anytime soon.