Forum configuration

[Neverhurry]

Hi! What is your experience to configure a forum, will you make it very specific, aiming only one narrow area or just opposite to make the forum more general? For example, if you want to make a Forum on art, you will make a forum which is about every aspects of art (literature, music, photography, film, fine arts, dancing, etc) or concentrate your strength only on one of them. Or is there a third road that you will make a forum on 2 different aspects for example literature and photography? I would like to listen to your opinion, and will value them very much, I think it is the one of the prior questions one should know to answer before starting a forum.Thanks.

[Allusion]

My answer is to make a forum about what you and your staff know best and are most interested about. Knowledge, quality, usability, convenience, features and especially rare content are what make a forum unique and attractive.

As an admin of a new forum, you are expected to start off the forum by setting up the forum's profile and identity, planning, organizing and administrating it, and provide at least the initial content. You should be as knowledgeable about the areas of interest as you expect the members to be. Even if you aren't a specialist in those areas, you should at least have enough knowledge to be able to steer conversations forward, moderate hot debates, solve conflicts of interest and so on.

[di3f00l]

If you make an art forum, I like what the guy said above but one side note, I suggest you use the gallery mod so users can submit their art so that they can show it off and maybe even have a market section to sell it in. People seem to like that since they're actually benefiting that way.