Shawn
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When it comes to operating or launching a forum, what confuses you the most about it? What is stopping you from embracing full-throttle success? Let's help each other work through these things.
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Go with a passion. Choose a niche or topic that you absolutely love to talk about in real life. It needs to be a topic that you can see yourself enjoying even for many years to come. One of my forums is a hiking and backpacking forum. I've been a hiker and a backpacker for around 13 years now. I go every weekend. I love every bit of it. It's even allowed me to form a local brand. So, that was a good choice for a forum because I'll always enjoy talking about it. If you choose a topic you know little about just because it's a trend, it's going to be hard to compete with a forum run by someone passionate about a topic you're not that passionate about. 🙂
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The solution might be to warn the members and ask them to contribute. But the solution will likely be a ban because I doubt they will change, theoretically speaking, LOL. 😛
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Christmas Eve with the in-laws. Christmas Morning with wife, kids, and close family. Christmas Evening at my parents house. Christmas Night, exhausted and passed out. 😛 LOL
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My biggest task is content creation. I think it's important to create a really good discussion at least once a day. If you can do that, you can retain your membership.
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On your niche... Try to go with something that you're passionate about. If you can narrow it down to something that you have a lot of expertise in, that is going to even be better. Basically, make sure it's a topic that you don't mind posting about for years to come.
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Looking pretty good! I feel like this version is easier to use than the other one.
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I think the hardest task is getting those first couple of real organic members. Until then, you're talking to yourself or, rather, posting to no one. Once you get a couple of people who actively participate, you get to start being social with like-minded folks, and it gets way easier, in my opinion. 🙂
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I usually log in, reply to a few replies, create a few new topics, reply some more, and then create more topics. If there are any moderation tasks needed, I'll tend to them first.
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AI is great for writing privacy policies because you can get so specific, and it will create the terms for you. I use Grammarly for editing, which uses AI. I'm an ambassador with them, so I often get access to updates before anyone else, so I help beta test and play with it. But in all honesty, I love writing so I try to do that myself for the most part.
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Welcome!
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Where do you get your content ideas?
Shawn replied to Shawn's topic in Content, Content & More Content
I try to think of a new topic every time I reply to a post on my forum. I've basically developed a habitual system for it. I come up with a topic in relation to a reply that someone has made. I just try to make sure it's not too close to the previous topic.This is me, really. I'll post daily when I can but sometimes, I get busy on other things. Then I'll come in and post a bunch.
A Forum Community is Not a Community When?
Shawn replied to AWS's topic in Content, Content & More Content
A community is not a community when the admin is inactive. I see this so much. The owner just creates the forum and just wants to moderate and that's it. It takes the owner to start the community-side of the forum. A community and a forum are two different things. A forum is a platform. A community is culture of loyalty much like a friendship or family.Is Ruby older than Python?