Biggest forum failures

Beverly Level X³

April 5, 2013, 11:15 am

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What's the worst mistake you have made on your own forum; whether deleting the wrong reply to accidentally banning yourself. Talk about how you recovered.

As for myself, i seriously messed up my forum theme about two days after first install. I didn't know how to replace the theme at the time, so I just reinstalled the forum software :/

Since then, I've found it's easy to simply go in and replace the folder via FTP and that fixes everything in the theme files.

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Carmy

Carmy

I let a friend of mine post on my forum for a few days while I was on vacation. And, he turned out to be a big troll. I should have checked his posts on a computer while on vacation, but I trusted him and did not. It cost me several really good loyal forum members who left in anger.

14 years ago

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Layla

Layla

I didn't get enough people posting on my forum soon enough and interest died off quickly. Now I'm struggling to restart the forum with few members.

13 years ago

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Sylvester

Sylvester

I did not have good staff members on my first forum and for that reason there was spam and trolling when I was offline and the forum failed.

13 years ago

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angie828

angie828

I let a friend of mine post on my forum for a few days while I was on vacation. And, he turned out to be a big troll. I should have checked his posts on a computer while on vacation, but I trusted him and did not. It cost me several really good loyal forum members who left in anger.

What a friend. So sorry you had to endure that.

13 years ago

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Marlin

Marlin

On my first forum, I relied on a few of my friends to help put up forum posts and didn't get enough real forum members and when they left my forum went inactive.

13 years ago

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angie828

angie828

Letting posts go too long without being moderated is a huge one. If you are not going to moderate right away and there is a lot of spam on it, it does not attract as many people.

13 years ago

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Beverly

Beverly

Letting posts go too long without being moderated is a huge one. If you are not going to moderate right away and there is a lot of spam on it, it does not attract as many people.

Forum spam is such a huge turn off to me. If I see it, I want to moderate and delete it. But if I'm just a guest or regular member on a forum that's not possible, so I usually just end up leaving.

13 years ago

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ralph101

ralph101

Forum spam is such a huge turn off to me. If I see it, I want to moderate and delete it. But if I'm just a guest or regular member on a forum that's not possible, so I usually just end up leaving.

I do this as well. I figure if you dont have the time to make your site look good, I dont have the time to be on it.

13 years ago

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Corzhens

Corzhens

Let me share this experience of a childhood friend who had a forum about casino and other betting. One member had posted a style of betting that the admin disagreed. Take note that the admin is the owner. The disagreement escalated to an argument that went out of hand. In a matter of days, the forum died. Members seemed to have left except for a few who log in once in a while. But the number of posts remained at zero. Apparently, the members were turned off by the quarrelsome admin.

9 years ago

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