Do Not Overwhelm Members/Visitors
Do Not Overwhelm Members/Visitors
Definition: Creating an extensive amount of forums. Keep Reading my beloved Subscriber 
When we establish a forum (especially if you are new to forum development), we will naturally create an overwhelming of forums to satisfy your visitors and members.
Why?
You believe that with the number of forums to cover as many topics as possible, is beneficial. In most cases, if your forum is new, ITS GOING TO KILL IT.
Example: If your working on a general chat forum, don’t create a forum for every aspect of ‘chatting’. Keep it general - media, technology, music, digital entertainment etc. (This applies to new, ‘coming-soon’ forums).
A good idea is that you create a sub forum if you would like to break it down into a popular sub category. (Gaming -> Counterstrike). This will accumulate all the sub-category and the parent forum posts together and may develop an active forum atmosphere.
Why shouldn’t we create an extensive amount of forums? It satisfies a broader audience.
True but with the overwhelming of forums, new members may encounter the following:
- Emptiness(Ghost town) - usually forums with an overwhelming of boards for their members are empty, which discourages new members and may fail to success on its opening.
- Confusion - new members may find it difficult around the forum.
Because i love my Blog readers/subscribers so much i interviewed a number of people, this is what they had to say about an overwhelmed board.
- “Like I’ve made the wrong choice in joining.” - Dylan Tawse.
- “I feel like I’ve walked into the desert. My will to post is dry, and I don’t see rain on the horizon.” - Jake LaJeunesse.
- “Unwilling to contribute, looks too empty” - Stephen.
- And the list goes on…
Well, thank you for reading, hope this helps. Leave a comment if you can and hope to see you next time
Written by
Michael. W
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April 13th, 2008 at 12:21 am
Very useful tutorial, boards with too many forums never survive.
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