Five Newbie Forum Mistakes.

[Sobi1]

With an explosion of forum software and people taking more and more interest in forums, there are quite a lot of forums coming up everyday. But only a few survive and the rest perish, mainly because of the lack of insight by forum administrators. In this article, i am going to detail five mistakes you should never make if your forum is just starting up.



1. Number of staffALONG with you. At the minimum, remember that an idea staff by members ration is one for hundred.



2. Donations/special membership3. No post forums: Try to eliminate these. When you kick off a forum, make sure that the boards contained within it are absolutely necessary to prevent the over-crowding of your forum. Do not leave any forums with zero posts as it may reflect a lack of activity from staff. Why would you post in a section of forum that even the site owner is not interested in?!


4. Competitions:5. Impressions:

 

[Justin]

The main mistake that I see is starting a forum without enough back up funds. If you start a forum with a limited budget. you might have to shut it down just in 6 months because you will not get any regular posters or moderators to manage the forum.

 

[Laurentta]

Thank you for the information. It is not everyone who would take out time to educate newbies like us. I would definitely keep this in mind so as to avoid such mistakes when creating my forum.

 

[Kane]

The major mistake is starting a forum by using a paid script. When people do that they will end up spending a lot of money to run the forum and in just one year they will end up closing the site.