Who here owns a forum

[_Rush_]

Originally Posted by Bama

There is a new board - though it hasn't "officially" launched (and I won't tell you the url here) - but there's nothing in the rules that states that I can't mention the features of the board...

Preferences Mod

• When a member ignores another member - no thread started by the ignored member shows up in the threads for them.
• Prevent an ignored member from posting in any thread started by the member who ignored them. No more thread sabotages!
• Allow a member to remove any post from any member (other than an admin) that has been posted in a thread they have started. It's your thread - moderate it!
• Allow a member to lock & unlock a thread they have started.

Thread Mod
Threads posted will be in the main webmaster forum topic and we would like to be able to sort these by offering "sub-topic" choices when making a post (and as a board reader) choosing which of these to read from the user control panel. For example, the poster may create a "would you hit it" thread. You, as the forum viewer can choose in your control panel to see (or not see) "would you hit it" threads.

Banner Mod
You are allowed 1 banner to start with that you will share advertising space with us 50/50. The more you post, the higher % of the time your banner shows over ours and the number of your banners you can have in rotation. Your participation in the forums drives revenue - so shouldn't you be allowed to advertise in your own threads for free?

Blog Feature
Promote yourself, promote your products or webmaster referral and let people know who you are, what you do, what sites you operate and how best to contact you!

I'm interested in the banner mod. What software is the forum running?

[justFred]

http://justfred.freeforums.org

define forum owner? define success?

[Brad Gosse]

Mine has over 52k registered members.

[rowan]

Originally Posted by pornask

Earlier this year I started a social experiment - I installed a forum script, made sure it's perfectly functional, disabled email verification and account approval and abandoned the board. I came to check on it now few months later and the forum has following stats:

Our users have posted a total of 2524 articles
We have 2864 registered users
Most users ever online was 16 on Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:22 pm

The forum - no surprise - is a spam heaven of doom, but I only invested a little time into it and to a random stranger it will look like it's alive and kicking

I know this is an oldish sorta post, but what was the reason for trying this? I presume you were aware that the content would end up being all spam...

I run a small support forum and also have a 'general chat' subforum - it's full of spam. I delete the entire forum and re-add it occasionally just to clean up house, I also have a simple mod that will not hyperlink or display URLs in messages where the username has only posted once. Most of the spam posted gets no free backlinks or anchor text.

[rowan]

I just deleted & recreated the subforum

before:
Threads: 1,103, Posts: 1,725, Members: 6,392

after:
Threads: 205, Posts: 747, Members: 6,392

[The Judge]

the question is how do you get forum traffic?