Managing your forum?

by JazeonX September 7th 2010, 1:04 pm

I really wanna talk to different Administrator who made their own forum community on how they were able to attract people out or how is your forum currently now?
I just wanna talk about your forum.
Because I've been here in Forumotion like since it started and I really had a hard time inviting people out maybe I would learn a lot of things from you guys.

by Pinoy123 September 7th 2010, 1:06 pm

i can join hehe

by exarkun September 7th 2010, 6:34 pm

Try advertising on others forums (might be against rules) or offer interesing content.

by Yuatato September 7th 2010, 6:39 pm

Follow exarkun's tip!

by JazeonX September 10th 2010, 9:13 am

exarkun wrote:Try advertising on others forums (might be against rules) or offer interesing content.

If you clearly understood my post it wasn't even advertising but I wanted to discuss or interact with other administrator who owns forum on how they got a lot of members in their forum.

by Caihlem September 11th 2010, 1:43 pm

Hey Jazeon Smile

From what I've been able to gather from personal experience, I'd say it's best to have at most 2 administrators. If one is good enough then so be it, but avoid the dangers of having more. The obvious start is because Admin is a place with high powers and responsabilities. Also, Admins are the leader, and leaders generally are not the ones who dfo the best team work. It's generally easier to keep the final decision making within a reduced number of people. that being said, I used to run my forums with 4 Admins, one being clearly defined ad Head Admin.

For as far as staff are concerned, I've always believed it a good idea to keep officials at minimum levels. Moderators classically have Police-man type roles. As such, the less there are the less people feel forced. Then again, some forums (ie; specialised forums) need an extensive staff to carry out a certain function. That ofcourse is always a choice the leading team must make.

For as far as attracting members, I'd say the best things are:
> Simple, but appealing, management
> Interesting content
> Acitivities that can make members "loyal" to your site
> Passion, the biggest engin around

by JazeonX September 12th 2010, 11:22 am

Wow that is kinda difficult to do.

by icadgodlikes September 12th 2010, 7:38 pm

invite ur close friends and promote in blogs or others forum

by Doctor Inferno September 14th 2010, 3:13 pm

For me. SEO, providing informative content, have an awesome staff team, and some creativity.

by Aimee L. September 28th 2010, 3:12 pm

Well, it is very difficult.
I know from experience. I have a hard time finding members for my forum. (It's about band Evanescence, so there don't join those who don't know them..

)
But, if you try and if you love it. You must work. Smile

So, don't give up.

by JazeonX October 3rd 2010, 12:48 pm

During Forumotion started I joined the community directly and started establishing my very own forum and inviting a lot of friends.
And I will still work hard to get a lot of members to join my very own forum community.

by nathanpc October 3rd 2010, 2:53 pm

I was one of the founders of Mobile Passion forum(outside Forumotion) and I remember that within 10 days, we had almost 4000 users. And all we had done was a good advertisement project. We sent invites for some friends, then the friends sent to others. Then we done some ads to put on some sites that had the same theme. Then we had the success that it is.

I'm starting my own community now. And after I setup everything, I will start the advertisement plan. Wink

Good Luck!

by Mod 4 U October 3rd 2010, 4:03 pm

Easy for me at the moment because no other members on my forum.

by nathanpc October 4th 2010, 2:41 am

Mod 4 U wrote:Easy for me at the moment because no other members on my forum.

What is your forum?

by Mod 4 U October 5th 2010, 12:02 am

nathanpc wrote:
Mod 4 U wrote:Easy for me at the moment because no other members on my forum.
What is your forum?

You expect to register it? Do you even play Atmosphir?

by Matthewop October 5th 2010, 5:01 am

That is very useful..

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by JazeonX October 10th 2010, 10:30 am

I'm really looking forward to get a lot of member in my forum, So that I could virtually have fun and I'm not waiting for donation and money stuff but I wanna create a huge community where people could have fun and also me.

by Azami October 11th 2010, 12:45 am

I personally run my forum with little limitations. My forum right now has a skin that I'm 99% sure isn't available anymore to forummotion which makes it unique. I also code things myself that other forummotion sites don't have. Start out with at most 2 moderators and then try inviting all your friends. You won't have a popular forum overnight.

For example my site. I created it around 2-3 years ago. Only until around several months ago do I start working hard on it and trying to get it to be a good community. Now I have 70 members with over 6000 posts. It's still not super active but that's an example of how long it can take.

Sorry for my bad grammar I'm just tired tonight.

by zuohuijuan October 28th 2010, 5:49 am

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by Caihlem October 28th 2010, 12:07 pm

Caihlem wrote:For as far as staff are concerned, I've always believed it a good idea to keep officials at minimum levels. Moderators classically have Police-man type roles. As such, the less there are the less people feel forced. Then again, some forums (ie; specialised forums) need an extensive staff to carry out a certain function. That ofcourse is always a choice the leading team must make.

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Someone seems inspired bwi

by fforumadm October 29th 2010, 11:39 pm

In our situation, we actually have a forum in our organisation, but due to the web administrator several time changed in discussions ont the forums web page, we needed to have an independent forum, where the members could be sure, that no censur was made.

BR,
Anne