Invite-only web forum?

[Scalene]

Only a few of you may know my father is a regular member of russian website leprosorium.ru - an invite-only forum.

It's a brilliant idea. Only the best and brightest are permitted to post.

I was wondering, could this idea work? An invite system, based on the absolutely hilarious members of various forums, gathering them. Any profit would probably be made from viewers who enjoyed reading the hilarity.

If only users who generated lulz were allowed, you could see how it could turn out well.

Comments?

[LordZeebmork]

an invite-only troll group would be great

all the power of the kitty krew without getting wrecked by fucktards like radiator

[Sawdust]

It would fail at one point because stupid people are generally the reason why a lot of people are funny.

[Scalene]

At 8/10/08 08:37 AM, Sawdust wrote: It would fail at one point because stupid people are generally the reason why a lot of people are funny.

I'm not really sure.

I'm on a lot of forums, and I know there's one or two users on every one who generate a fuckton of hilarity, even without stupidity. See, what would happen if you put all those people together?

[LordZeebmork]

At 8/10/08 08:39 AM, Scalene wrote: See, what would happen if you put all those people together?

a massive circlejerk.

[Rohedin]

Sounds to me like Russia just spread it's communism onto a forum. It could work though... actually I might be interested in something like this.

[Sawdust]

At 8/10/08 08:40 AM, LordZeebmork wrote:

At 8/10/08 08:39 AM, Scalene wrote: See, what would happen if you put all those people together?

a massive circlejerk.

Correctamundo.

[BFK]

At 8/10/08 08:33 AM, Scalene wrote: If only users who generated lulz were allowed,

that'll bring in some genuine shining stars

[LordZeebmork]

At 8/10/08 08:41 AM, Rohedin wrote: actually I might be interested in something like this.

imagine the BBS without statwhores and noobs.

that would be great.

now imagine that without the intelligent people and you would get something like the invite-only shit.

[ScrubbyNinja]

I'm actually the owner of an invite only web forum, and have also been a part of a couple of them, and I love them.

The invite only status makes it so that there aren't as many idiots on the website, and the few times that they do come up, they are quickly dealt with by the staff.

They usually don't get too big, the one I own only has 12 members, but I've been in one with about 100 users and it was actually a really good size, despite how small it sounds.

Trust me, the quantity and quality of the content on these types of websites are much better, even though there are less posts, there are much more original topics and it's easy to have intelligent conversation.

[Wiiporter]

Can I join your super duper exclusive forum of superlulz and fun, scalene?

But yeah, I think thats an awesome idea, but it would sort of lack the element of surprise and drama. No forum is complete without loads of drama!

[Little-Rena]

There wouldn't be a whole lot of point to an invite only forum unless you where picking people who could actually talk much on it and get something out of it, otherwise it'd probably just be a waste of time.

[Gu-rrilla]

Are you talking about the Mod Forum?