Have your forums gone dead?

[joh]

Hi guys, I am new to your forum. this is my second forum, my first was a phpbb ran site and it when down the drain. I have up grade to VB just so i can offer more to the guys. The best way to keep your guys happy is to offer them some kind of comfort. my site is crap next to others that are out there but i keep it light and fun. I am now trying to expand the site and make better for the guys but i have no clue. I know what i want and what would work, but i just do not know how to do it.

[Annacia]

Originally Posted by Vaz

I started off with no signs up now I'm getting roughly 5 new signups a day. However, I've got the other problem where the users dont post. They dont even post any introduction posts. There are the few that are active however but the nonposting ones outweigh them.

What worked for me:

-Providing a service such as free SMS which I later made for registered users
-Pornography. I'm fortunant that my host allows porn so we have a section dedicated to that. Many users signup for that and post requests.
-Treating users less harshly and having near to no rules. We arnt strict on language or what's talked about. We simply ask them to post in the correct forum.

I've also added a radio & arcade hack which are used quite often.

I think that this has leaded to some sort of success. There's content there and when users see content they signup.

If I had to resort to porn and a free for all, no rules site. I'd flush it down the toilet because I wouldn't want anything to do with the sort of people that it would attract! Never mind the rep you would get from running such garbage.

[joh]

Hey guys we just added and arcade to our forum www.huligar.com/nsraweb we are given the King of the Arcade a tool kit that they could use day to day to make some real money. the contest will end at the end of the month. we have a new contest coming up soon, $500 cash for the best web site that is dedicated to our what we want to accomplish.

[Nick R]

ooooh thats advertising, heres some as well. I just installed RPG Inferno v3 and i have had 10 registrations in 2 days. Ps. site has only been running for 9 days :p

[LeoZ]

Gaming network, the best.

[wishmaster]

lol my forum has/is dead any help will be appreciated site in sig

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