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Originally Posted by ablaye
Definitly the members.
A forum would never be great without dedicated members who keep the community alive.
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Forum.
3. an assembly, meeting place, television program, etc., for the discussion of questions of public interest.
A forum, or Bulletin Board, is built for the discussion of matters that appeal to its target audience.
If you had a forum, but no members, then your what we call, "FAIL".
But seriously, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING in a forum is the MEMBERS.
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Originally Posted by MrCat
A well maintained and moderated forum with 0% SPAM would be a major indicator.
Active participation of members and admins/mods as well as very useful and related discussions are also some good qualities that a forum should have  |
0% SPAM isn't interesting, you need the odd bit of "epic lulz" randomly thrown in to lighten the mood of a thread sometimes.
But trying to keep everyone formal and mature can be harder then picking a name, but that depends on your niche.
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Originally Posted by MrCat
And also an indication that Mods can't keep up with their work, lols JK  |
*cough*KB*cough*
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Originally Posted by sallyxu126
I think as a good forum, it should get good poster firstly , and then it should have some skills to promote the forum and try to get more and more good poster here .
and then the forum can bring good information to peoples and be a good forum.
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Definately, I mean, if you have random people coming onto your forum and posting about the latest D1 race, rather then how to code a CMS, then you have a problem.
I think the second hardest part of having a website in general is the advertising, its not moral to spam other sites, and if you hack another website and have their site as a link to yours, you get nothing but raged members who spam your place.