Customizing SMF > Building Your Community and other Forum Advice
How to build a successful forum
Mother Goose:
This is perfect.. thank you! We have gotten well establish now.. and ready to begin marketing. Your posts have been *very* helpful!
Neorics:
--- Quote from: Noddegamra on August 23, 2007, 09:47:41 AM ---Paying for Posts
There are quite a few services out there that will offer to do 10 posts for $1 etc. Whilst this may look like a good 10-post-boost to your forum, it can really harm it.
Make alternate profiles
One technique used when starting a forum brand new is to make about 10 profiles yourself and get posting. Whilst this can seem like a good boost it can look pretty bad. Each time you post, your personality leaks into it. People can quite easily tell if its the same person or not. It also requires a great amount of effort to have 20 or so conversations with yourself, trying to present different views and make it look good.
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i'm sorry but this tips is just sad... sorry i just got to say it... it's really sad... and i dont recommend doing any of those that i quoted...
"quality is better than quantity"
you'd want real people around the world with different time difference to log-in and be 'active' at different times so that your forum activeness is not concentrated in a period of time and if 'you' make up the 10 people who are active in your forum then the activeness of your forum is concentrated at 'your' online times...
also a forum with like 5000 members but has 10 active members and over 15000 posts is kind of a failure for a forum, it means that the registered members never check back after they got what they wanted and the post count is due to spam by the 10 active members plus the posts of the people you paid to post for 1$
i know you already mentioned on the bad sides when using those tips but i just wanna elaborate...
Mys Videl:
You could simply be patient and always add new content to your site, offer your members helpful ideas and do things yourself for them instead of asking others to do things. That is how you get a truly successful forum, not by bribing people. We have a SMF forum with nearly 200K members and we have never paid a single member for anything. Our website depends on not only the community to contribute but the staff does things to contribute to the community, no money besides costs for server had been put in to getting us advertisement or anything of the such. We lasted for two years and now we are getting nearly 250 members a day without having to do anything at all.
christicehurst:
I'm starting on a new forum myself and It might be hard to get this one going. My last forum is growing well at 21 000 posts.
charlesmentor:
hello guys, i am kind of confused here but all thesame i need somebody to reallly explain how i can build a forum site like hxxp:www.igoldforum.com [nonactive] or hxxp:www.nairaland.com [nonactive]. especially the lattter one, i need the info pls.my email is charlesdmentor@gmail.com.thanks
charles mentor
hxxp:www.dollar4naija.blogspot.com [nonactive]
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