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WatchOut

Hello Guys'n Girls!

Please take some time to review my forums

www.computerforumz.com

all critique are welcome!

Regards, WatchOut

Katra

Looks great lots of interesting topics too!

WatchOut

Thank you Katra for your kind comments, they are highly appreciated!

Regards, WatchOut

Z

I like your forum watchout, already posting on it.
I hope it will grow in to a big forumz.

tony

Its a good start, and nice to see you have a few active members already.

There is something ive read on a number of occasios on different forums, and thats when you start off a website with forums, its usually better to have a few categories with a wider range for what can be posted in there. The reason for having fewer categories is that when people do post it makes thos secions seem busier which in turn makes the site looks busier, then once you have more acive userss add an extra category here and there.

Although in saying that ive tried it both ways and never relly managed to get a forum above 200 members of which only about 30 were active.

WatchOut

yeah, i followed your tip on my other forum, didn't work. So i tried this way. And yeah, i have some active posters there .

xPureNLx

Not bad, your own design? I'd say: try to secure it a little better so visitors have to register to view all topics/sections.

- xPureNLx

WatchOut

aha so you mean like yeah i get it... Well the design isin't mine but i will do that so users' cant view the forums etc.

martian2k4

Its not a bad site but im not really feeling the blue its too blue? Also maybe you should play around with icons a bit would improve the overall look.

WatchOut

yeah i will work on the design later, but for now the most important is to get some members.

CannonBallGuy

Looks quite nice, but the blue is a little strong.
You also have more forums than members at the moment.

WatchOut

yeah i actually have but, they are growing. Each day over 5 persons register, i think it's good?

martian2k4

Thats quite good yea, But how many are actually posting?

Maybe you could hold a posting contest to increse forum activity?

xPureNLx

That will cause spam Marti

WatchOut

Out of the 25 people who are registered, like 10 people post. The others are leechers, but some are pretty busy, i can understand that. Yes, i will hold some competitions, but every competition has it own negative things, posting will cause spam, referral competition, when the competition is over everybody will probably leave. So i'm open to good competition suggestions.

xPureNLx

Leechers? So you actually are creating a Sharing Community, or how do I have to read your last post? =O

- xPureNLx

MGDesigns

I think he meant lurkers?

martian2k4

xPureNLx wrote: »

That will cause spam Marti

Well if your forum is well moderated and you make a firm point that spam will not be tollerated then you will be able to run a sucessful competition

I have seen many run in the past with out too much spam issues

xPureNLx

MGDesigns wrote: »

I think he meant lurkers?

hmm, probably.. =O

martian2k4 wrote: »

Well if your forum is well moderated and you make a firm point that spam will not be tollerated then you will be able to run a sucessful competition

I have seen many run in the past with out too much spam issues

And visa versa, I've seen that is. I sure don't recommend a posting competition at all. The place I used to mod considered having such a competition as well, but everyone agreed not to because of the spam. If you're having a small community, you might consider having a posting competition, but the bigger the community is, the harder it is to manage, trust me ^^.

- xPureNLx

WatchOut

Yeah lurkers, darn i always mix up "leechers" with "lurkers". Well, what would you do ?

Posting Competition, or an referral competition where the referred people must do at least 10 posts. What do you think? It's to prevent fake accounts..

xPureNLx

A competition must have some sort of price. What do you have in mind?

- xPureNLx

DeluxeNames

This is a great start Watch Out!

Z

i think he is doing he great job.

WatchOut

Domains
Maybe $
Giveaway stuff.

That's what i think of.. yet, but later when my forum grows, i'll add bigger prizes & competitions