What makes a Successful Forum?
May 13th, 2008 Posted in 6. Website/Forum Reviews, 7. Open Discussions
Lets all get together and have a community discussion on the following topic.
“What makes a Successful forum?”
So another way to put it - What makes a forum successful? The amount content? The quality of it’s Design? General Activity? Or does everything in general affect your judgment?
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Looking forward to hearing your answers.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Hm, the question is rather objective. How do we define “good”. A successful forum? A successful forum may not be big, a big forum may not be successful. But maybe that’s what the question asked. Well, I’d say everything in moderation. Not too many staff, or you’ll be too authoritarian, but not too few to leave you open to attack. Not too much general chat, but enough to have fun. Really I don’t think that you or I as an admin can gauge what a “good” forum is, you need to know what the members think. If your members think your forum is “good” then it is a good forum, if they dislike it, then you’re clearly doing something wrong. So yeah, to sum up, everything in moderation. Happy members=happy forum…
May 13th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
What a great explanation CDRom
That’s how i judge a forum. Not based on a set of guidelines but rather on personal thoughts and opinions on the board.
@CDRom: “Not too many staff, or you’ll be too authoritarian” - A great quote right there.
May 14th, 2008 at 2:29 am
The “Click Here” is not working.
I think a successful forum should be self-sustaining, at least - both monetary and memberwise.
If people find reasons to be on the forum - it’s successful. If I *want* to check the forum to see what’s been going on - excited about what people are doing - it’s successful.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Nice, Edward, I agree