What if your forum was once very popular but now it's not. How do you rebrand your forum to bring it back to life?
What are some of the oddest requests you get on your forum?
Would you pay money for an experienced admin to run your forum? What reasons would you have for paying money to a forum admin?
Have you ever started a forum on a whim and found out that your impulse was wrong? What about times when you started a forum impulsively and actually ended up with a winner? Did this ever happen?
What if your computer fails and you can't get to a computer and check your forum? How would you ensure that everything was running well?
Does your forum have a mobile friendly theme version available for those running on iPhone or iPad or other smart device?
Which forum niches are the hardest to break into right now? And, which type of forum would you never start?
Have you ever posted on a forum for a long time and when you finally put up a signature link, you got banned because the forum owner didn't like how your site was similar to his?
So let's say you own five forums and want to let your members be able to register on one forum and have instant access to the other four forums, (with the same login) but requiring no additional registration. Is this po...
Did you ever come across a situation where an ex-admin or staff member started a forum and leeched your content?
Do you have a preferred length that you want all discussions or responses to be on your forum?
Does Facebook connect help you get more members on your Facebook? What are some of the advantages of Facebook connect?
Do you regularly clean off your member list so that inactives are removed? What criteria do you use for deleting a member who is no longer active?
Does bold text in a signature line catch your attention? Or, what ways do you use to draw attention to your signature line?
Do you limit messages that can be sent by new members or can anyone send messages regardless of their post count?
Should you limit how many times a signature line can be changed on a forum? And, what would be some good reasons for doing this?
How is it that some new forum members can advertise links in posts, while others can't? This is true on some forums not all.
Do you ever get forum members who are constantly complaining and griping about every little thing about your forum? What can you do about that?
Do you ask for feedback and suggestions on your forum from current forum members? What are the advantages/disadvantages of doing this?
Do you ever visit a new forum that has very few posts on any subforum? What are your impressions of those type of forums? Do you sign up anyway and start posting? Or, do you leave?
Some really good forum discussions suddenly grind to a half after one particular response and it seems they never get going again in popularity. How can you reboot a forum discussion to make it relevant and interesting ...
Just wondering what the effect of shutting down a subforum might be. What if one or more members liked that particular subforum and posted there regularly. If you shut that down or merged it with another, maybe they wo...
Is there a safe way to have forum debates on hot/controversial topics? Or, do debates always lead to trolling?
Did you ever encounter a situation where you or a staff member was stalked on your forum? If so, how did you deal with it?
Some forums have it set by default to update you everytime there is a like or response to a discussion you have created. Did you ever get over whelmed with forum alerts in your email box? How do you deal with this?
How much do you trust your forum members? For instance, could you trust forum members with the power to delete posts in their own threads? Or, do you think this power would be abused?
Who decides on new staff members on your forum? As forum owner/admin are you the only voice for determining new members? Or, do you allow forum staff to be voted in by the members?
What was the most number of posts you got on your forum in any one day? Or, maybe you got so many forum members signing in on one day. Please talk about it.
Should you shut down polls put up by members after a minimum time, such as one week, if the member did not specify a deadline for the poll? Or, do you just keep the poll open?
What techniques do you use to encourage more new forum posts from members? Do you offer prizes or encouragement? What are your methods?
On your forum, what is the average life span of a forum member? For instance, do most of your forum members stay for years, or just weeks/months?
On your forum, do you allow mods to create sticky posts, or is that just reserved for admin/owner?
Do you have a minimum age for a staff member? For instance, would you hire your teen or child to manage your forum, such as for spam prevention, assuming they were mature enough to handle the responsibilities?
If your forum was suffering with few posts and membership, would you try to merge with a more successful forum? And, would you ask to remain on as staff or just give up ownership to save the community?
Is it possible all forums are destined to die? Is there no way to keep a forum running for five, ten or fifteen years or more?
When is a good time to retire an admin? Or, do you just wait for the person to ask to retire?
On one forum where I was a long time member, they had numerous staff titles including admin, co-admin, mod and editor/writer. Are there any other usable staff titles for a forum? And, how many titles do you use on your...
Do you keep a public or private list of known forum trolls and trouble makers, including those banned from your forum or known trouble makers on other forums? Do you think this would discourage others from trolling, if t...
What if your forum members or staff need to contact you, have you included contact info for this purpose on forum? Or, do they just have to rely on your PM system?
Does it help to offer prizes, whether monetary or virtual to get more new posts on your forum? If so, what type of forum prizes would you offer? Try to think of some unusual prize ideas.
