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Originally Posted by WNA
Ahh but you see after taking the advice before i completely changed the categories and forums on the board.  Edit: i have approved those two accounts who registered. |
I admire your perseverance, Wayne, but the problem as I see it is this:
If you promote your forums at an existing forum (such as CF) which already has an established userbase & has very similar (& very active) forums to the ones you have created, then I can't see how you would really hope to gain many new members.
When people, while browsing a forum they regularly use (e.g. CF) see your forum link & visit it, and see that it has similar (but unused) forums, I'd think that most would be unlikely to sign-up & use your forum too - as they can already discuss Current Affairs, Computers, Games & so on here (for example).
If that makes any sense...
As Alan said, attracting members to a forum can be very difficult.
You need a reason for people to join, something different to here & other places.
I suppose there's also a "vicious circle" type thing with forums...people don't like to join & post in empty forums, yet if people don't join & don't post then the forums stay empty...(you need members for there to be activity, but you need activity for there to be members)
It's quite hard, & I understand the problem myself.
Like Alan said, have you thought about actually having a proper website, with the forums as an extension of it? (I know you were thinking before about signing up with I-Web).
Can you perhaps get your friends to join your forum, & use it, so that it "gets the ball rolling" & makes it more active?