-Firstly, come on, use a decent forum system. Visitors to forums hate advertisements. The best way to guarantee no ads is to host it yourself. There’s loads of free web hosts out there- there’s loads of free forum software, too. So, come on! It doesn’t take much energy to find a good host and upload some files. I think the two best forum softwares to use are SMF(www.simplemachines.org) and phpBB(www.phpbb.com).
-Secondly, if anybody is actually reading the topic with the link to your forum in, they must be dedicated to this one, and not many people are dedicated to loads of forums, so watch out. If you don’t get many people joining, don’t cry (like me), just accept the fact that it needs a bit of work.
-When someone goes on your forum, they need to be attracted to it. You know, cool features, a decent layout, well that sort of stuff. Also, CHANGE THE LAYOUT!!! People don’t like the default skin. Change it to match your site’s theme! E.g. if it’s a forum about religious things, you don’t have a black theme and loads of pictures of blood and gore. You need it to match what your forum’s about.
-OK, to make a forum you need a basic idea. What’s your forum going to be about? Is it an RPG? Who are you aiming it at? You need to think out these things before you even think about registering your forum.
-Your forum needs to be well organised. You don’t need 2,445,513 different boards. People aren’t going to want to take a paracetamol every 10 minutes because they’ve got a headache from trying to figure out which board to post in. Organise them!!!
-Don’t be an idiot and give out staff positions to “the first 5 people to join” your forum. It just makes it look crap. Which it is! So don’t do it! Let them work for staff places! Don’t give them away!
-Your forum is unoriginal, with twenty million other forums exactly like yours why should anyone pick yours?
-Your rules are completely pointless or you have none.
-Secondly, if anybody is actually reading the topic with the link to your forum in, they must be dedicated to this one, and not many people are dedicated to loads of forums, so watch out. If you don’t get many people joining, don’t cry (like me), just accept the fact that it needs a bit of work.
-When someone goes on your forum, they need to be attracted to it. You know, cool features, a decent layout, well that sort of stuff. Also, CHANGE THE LAYOUT!!! People don’t like the default skin. Change it to match your site’s theme! E.g. if it’s a forum about religious things, you don’t have a black theme and loads of pictures of blood and gore. You need it to match what your forum’s about.
-OK, to make a forum you need a basic idea. What’s your forum going to be about? Is it an RPG? Who are you aiming it at? You need to think out these things before you even think about registering your forum.
-Your forum needs to be well organised. You don’t need 2,445,513 different boards. People aren’t going to want to take a paracetamol every 10 minutes because they’ve got a headache from trying to figure out which board to post in. Organise them!!!
-Don’t be an idiot and give out staff positions to “the first 5 people to join” your forum. It just makes it look crap. Which it is! So don’t do it! Let them work for staff places! Don’t give them away!
-Your forum is unoriginal, with twenty million other forums exactly like yours why should anyone pick yours?
-Your rules are completely pointless or you have none.
