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20 reasons for members to start a new topic on your forum

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Irisado:

--- Quote from: Kindred on August 18, 2012, 12:25:26 PM ---I don't know about that... personally, your post seems kinda pointless...   anyone who makes their way to my forum alreayd knows WHY they want to post....

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They ought to anyway  ;).

It must be said, I've never seen any post on any forum I've been a member of which has stated something along the lines of 'help, what should I post?'.

It seems to me that having such a great long list of reasons for posting might be a bit off putting to new members, and would probably not be read by many in any case.  Members who post usually post because they have some kind of interest in the forum, so advising them what to post seems to be a bit unnecessary, and could possibly come over as being rather patronising.

James---:
Don't you think that you can help members by giving them some ideas?
Some members don't have a question and post nothing. But often they have some knowledge
or good idea where the whole group can benefit from. This post is meant information purposes,
just to give members some inspiration.

Irisado:
It depends on the type of forum you have, but in general, you're likely to have those who are inexperienced, or new to the subject(s) discussed on the forum, and they will naturally ask questions, which more experienced members will then respond to (in all probability), even if they don't start threads themselves.

I just don't see any reason to force the issue.  Members will post without needing guidelines about what to actually post.  If you want to have guidelines about how best to format a post, or structure arguments, and so on, then that's okay, but that's as far as you need to go in my opinion.

ChalkCat:
I think that list looks a bit patronising.  Surely those who are interested in posting will already know what they want to post, otherwise they'll just read and not even give a thought to posting, if they bother with the forum at all.

In my experience, the only members who look for inspiration for what to post are the admins ;)

K@:
I forgot...

21 - Pr0n. :)

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