Forums are
popular community platform used by many webmasters. It’s all about managing a
group of people who are creating content simultaneously managing a forum needs
special strategy otherwise it would be either be successful or it would sink
like a ship.
No Spam: If
forum is left without moderation soon it becomes a house of spam there is a
physiology behind it like when a new registered member visits a forum and see
other members spamming he to gets confidence and starts to post junk and spam
post just to get his signature links live, just the opposite thing happens with
quality and strict forum and here the same guy post quality content why? As he
is afraid that if he spam he would get his account banned so constant
moderation is important but as your forum grows it may become hard to fight
spam and in that case you can appoints your trusted member of the forum to get
the role of moderators to make your work lot easier.
Spam
Registration: A lot of forum posting software are available now that
automatically post post and threads on thousands of forums generally these software’s
make an automated registration and so to avoid getting hit by this software be
sure to add extra registration protection for your forum.
Over strictness:
Some forums show zero tolerance against those who spam but banning instantly must
not be used why? The user you may ban may not sign up again and every user is important
if you would have warned him maybe he would have stopped spamming and post at
least some quality post but when things get out of your hand you always have
the last option.
Engaging:
Make sure that your forum is engaging, there are lots of social networking
tools and apps available online that you can add on your forum and lower the bounce
rate to make your forum cool and interesting.
Contest: you
can bring more excitement in the community by organizing a contest and you can
reward the winner with cash prize or an animated trophy that blinks in his
profile this will create competitiveness among members to get to the top you
can also name the contest like “Poster Of The Month” or anything that goes
catchy.
Facebook
Login: People hate sign up and it’s a fact we sign up everywhere from email to any
social networking website and this makes some people anti sign up mentality they
just get irritated when they see that they have to register for doing certain
things providing facebook login as a alternate login system will be a great
improvement you can do on your forum so that user don’t have to register to
post on your forum they can use their facebook id.
Custom
designing: There are now lots of forums online and market is bit saturated so
you need to have a unique look that makes you different from the crowd.
And remember
a good forum has three ten times more post then it’s member and has high number
of active members
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