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« Reply #10 on Jul 18, 2008, 2:25am » | |
Awww... lol... a post exchange is where you and another person that is the admin of the other board... join eachother's board and make x amount of posts... it helps get both forums active and advertised...
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« Reply #11 on Jul 30, 2008, 10:33am » | |
lol i like the awww at the start there!
Obviously i knew just checking you did 
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« Reply #12 on Jul 30, 2008, 7:12pm » | |
Jul 30, 2008, 10:33am, Sm0rt wrote:lol i like the awww at the start there!
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lol... I ddin't even realize that I put the "Awww" at the start... 
Anyways, yeah I knew what it was or I wouldn't have said anything... lol... But I do like to read up on what other forums are doing to be active and that is one of the things... there are also board hops too...
Glad to know that you knew about what I was talking about... 
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« Reply #13 on Aug 3, 2008, 3:51am » | |
I think there are three main things to getting members on your forum:
Appearance
Having a nice skin, good graphics, etc. are very important. Lots of people don't join sites that use the Proboards default skin because it makes it seem like the admin put no work into the forum. Its boring and uninteresting; there's nothing catchy about white and light blue. But then again, you can go overboard trying to make your forum pretty.
Content
Having too many boards, not enough boards, sloppy spelling/chatspeak, things like that drive potential members away. Having 40 boards is never good; but neither is having two. It's all about the balance. :]
Attitude
If you see a board where the admin is always yelling at people, going ban-crazy, ignoring new members, etc., are you going to join? It's important to be polite to members, or at least don't yell at them in the c-box where everybody can see the fight. Don't ban people for breaking one rule; it's stupid and soon you won't have any members left to ban.
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« Reply #14 on Aug 18, 2008, 7:05pm » | |
Thanks for the input!
I'm sure these guidlines will be very helpful for some members!
If you want help with any of these aspects of your forum you can request support here at M4U, and also graphics and a rate of your forum!
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