and is it successfull?
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I own one. I make a decent amount of money off it. Not as active as GFY though. What qualifies as successful?“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”Comment
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Got a few, They're successful, though I don't have em loaded with advertising so I'm not making any money at them. If monetary gain is what you consider success, then I'm not that successful with forums, if it's happ0y members and healthy growing forum, then I am successful.Comment
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run the most popular "spore" forums / site. nearly 100,00 posts, based around a game that isn't even out lol.Comment
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I put one together about a year ago but never did anything with it..
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I own one thats doing extremely well. Its one of the best if not the best in its niche. And im proud of it knowing how hard it is to get a forum going. Google just put me higher in the list resulting in a total of 100 new members a day
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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
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Yeah, we block spammers, otherwise the numbers would be quite different. I have an adult forum for surfers that got pretty bad before I added some prevention tools.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
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Still kind of supports what I said before - forums aren't easy to setup and that's not trying to shit on your forum at all.
I did the same by accident, built a forum and got tied up with a whole lot of other projects. Stumbled across it 12 months later and there were 100k of spam posts, couldn't believe it. So just deleted the whole thing.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
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I have one that gets a bunch of traffic, but I'm having spam problems
If anyone wants to mod it you can spam your own things as much as you want, I just dont have time for it.
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Oh I know. This particular forum network has 100+ niche specific forums in it. Some are definitely more active than others, and there are still a couple that have not been posted in yet.
But considering it has only been active to the public for 8 months, I am happy with the progress. I am confident that it will reach snowball proportions and easily reach the 100 new members a day Franck is getting.Comment
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I started one a couple months ago and it seems to be picking up steam slowly but surely. forums are a pain in the ass.Comment
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I own one with close to 5000 members. But I don't know if I would call it successful.Free 🅑🅘🅣🅒🅞🅘🅝🅢 Every Hour (Yes, really. Free ₿itCoins.)
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Did any of your guys with successful/busy forums use one of those forum populating/posting services at the beginning?
They strike me as pretty vague and non-specific so I wondered if any of them actually would be of any real benefit.Comment
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I created about 15 fake accounts and had conversations with myself. Sounds corny but it worked to get the ball rolling.“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”Comment
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I'd be actually interested to know whether someone can recommend such service from positive experience in the past. Anyone?Comment
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The guys over at relinksoftware.com are working on one. I think it was them that was offering beta tests for it but I can't find the thread. Could have been someone else with similar software.“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”Comment
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As stated above, our network has 100+ niche specific forums. The inability of outsourced help to follow instructions was more trouble than it was worth.
Then there was the issue of these outsourced guys deciding they could get into arguments with the owners . . .Comment
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Damn, that sucks dude. Did it cost you anything? Did they take money up front?Comment
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forums are fun to run but it was a lot of work to get started when i did it years ago. Good luck to you mate if you proceed ;-)Promote our penis growth and acne books, earn 75% on sales and rebills.
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Yeah, it wasn't too much, part of some introductory offer.
As they say, it takes money to make money, and we give out Amazon and Visa gift cards every month, so I just chalk it up to one of the expenses of growth.Comment
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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.
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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.
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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?
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10,000 posts per month is only the beginnings of success in my opinion. Even at that, things could still easily go the other way and fizzle out.
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