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« on: March 29, 2005, 07:38:04 PM »
I've hosted a forum on my site on and off now for 4 years. I can't really get it to take off. I've recently decided that it should be a bigger focus of the site, so I'm working on it.

If you're willing to make specific suggestions on my forum, I welcome it (Medical school forum). In the interest of helping more people than just me, general suggestions would be great: How do you get visitors, how do you get people to post, how do you recruit moderators, etc.?

Thanks for your help,
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« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2005, 01:31:46 AM »
I think a good way is to ask your friends to post. Once 3 or 4 people are on there posting regularly, more will join in. Thumbs Up
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« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2005, 02:34:46 AM »
Maybe you could allow people to post replies without registering. Having to register, and activate by email etc often puts me off posting on boards.
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« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2005, 03:16:00 AM »
Check out this forum:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum103/
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« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2005, 05:30:15 AM »
Thanks for the suggestions.

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I think a good way is to ask your friends to post.


I have no friends - just admirers Smile

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Maybe you could allow people to post replies without registering. Having to register, and activate by email etc often puts me off posting on boards.


I tried that originally, but didn't have much luck. I asked around a little before I made this change. Things picked up a little when I asked people to register. I think people feel more a little more involved if they register.

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Check out this forum: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum103/


Thanks for the suggestion, I will check it out.
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« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2005, 05:51:16 AM »
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum103/355.htm is really good
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« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2005, 05:51:26 AM »
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum103/355.htm is really good
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« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2005, 05:52:56 AM »
Hinorm_256, Pete waves

Your not doing to bad as it is Norm.
152 members and a google page ranking of 5 isn't too bad at all.
Like any active forum when a post is made thats an inquiry, the faster and more comprehensive the reeply is made the more likely visitors are to return.


On the Moderator question, the more that a person posts helpful replies  on your forum the more likely they are to be willing to help out.
You have a few posters with more than 1 or 2 posts, those might be the people you should approach first to ask if they want to help out with moderating

On a side note.. Where is your forum based. Your local time is GMT +6 hours yet I see references on your site to US and Caribbean Medical Schools and nothing GMT +6 Confused
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« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2005, 08:20:53 AM »
The WMW fora y'all are pointing to are great. Thanks.

BTW, I'm in the midwest - I just don't know the different b/w GMT+6 and GMT-6 (never learned that in med school). In short, you'd better hope you're never one of my patients in the morning, b/c I'll be asleep.
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