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Originally Posted by jumpenjuhosaphat
Remain active in your own forum. If you aren't active, then it's hard to expect your members to remain active.
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I agree. That's one of the factors that makes me personally like to participate in a forum.
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Don't post articles too often, especially the ones that require your members to follow a link. The best posts are posts that give your members the opportunity to use their knowledge. In other words, ask questions, simple ones and tough ones, and ask lots of them.
View your forum as a community in which you take part. Don't try to view it as your domain that you must control and have ultimate power over. A spirit of community begins with you, and is in my opinion the one thing that sets good forums apart from bad ones. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of forums far busier that have a terrible sense of community, but with a sense of community you increase your chances of a successful forum.
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Yes, forums are so popular because they are a "community" where people can interact with each other, so everything that give a more "community" feeling to a forum will make it a more inviting place to hang out at.
Thank you.