...actually, some strats were done behind the scenes and is probably more than you would expect lol
For example, when I got the OP and I realised that it wasn;t active and was falling in the thread list, I had to actually strategically space the bumps of the thread to avoid the double post need. And in the messages, I would try as hard as I can to have other replies as if the thread is too inactive, that would be bad so I was trying as hard as I can to have discussions going on and I think I did a good job at that, but sometime, it was hard.
The other strat was how I targeted supporter, i spent a lot of time to actually spot them like I kept checking the viewers list on the thread page, was doing a full queue of people who I suspect to support etc....
I really cared a lot about the thread at the time lol