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07-02-2008, 02:21 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 24  | Members Joining / Not Posting I have created a new forum, and have had over 50 members join, register in the past 1 week. (Good News) but no one has posted a first discussion yet (Bad News) What are ways that persons have encouraged others to start the ball rolling, by posting that first message? The site looks good, and members are joining - so I feel like I'm half way there... Thanks for any advice -  | ||||
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07-02-2008, 05:48 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 2,978 Location: Michigan, US   
| I agree that as the administrator you need to start a lot of discussions and hopefully the members will follow your example. Another thing is make sure you have a welcome PM and edit it to fit your forum, give some links to forums like the introductions forum and help forum, stuff like that. I think if you can get a member to introduce themselves and they get some warm welcomes they will feel more comfortable to begin posting on their own.
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07-12-2008, 04:47 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 14 Location: Connecticut, USA  
| What's the link to your forum?
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07-12-2008, 07:15 PM
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Title: Thanks For Asking
Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 891 Location: USA | do you require that people make Introduction posts. that is a good start to get the disucssions rolling. | ||||
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07-12-2008, 07:28 PM
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Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 34 | Is the forum accesible to Guests or do you have to register first to see anything on the forums. The reason I ask is that if you block guests from viewing, you will get a LOT of people registering just to take a look at the site and then leave when they realise its not for them. But if you make it viewable to guests so they can see what it is like BEFORE registering, you will get less people register but you will find those that do register are doing so because they have seen your site, like the look of it and want to be on it posting something and so you get a better quality of smaller member numbers than a large number of non-posting members,
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07-12-2008, 07:48 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 2,978 Location: Michigan, US
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07-12-2008, 07:51 PM
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Title: Thanks For Asking
Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 891 Location: USA | that is what I meant. Same thing we do in our welcome PM by recommending they make an Introduction post and provide the link the the section so they can easily do it. | ||||
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