What gifts or incentives do you give to forum donors who contribute money to the upkeep of your forum?
Do you have any forum supporters or those or donate money to your forum so that you can pay operating expenses? Does this amount exceed your forum advertising revenue? And, how is the money spent?
How much money do you have invested into your forum? For instance, maybe you invested into a year of hosting or domain name. Do you earn enough advertising revenue to make up for the investment?
How much money do you earn monthly from your forum? And, do the expenses outweigh the profit?
When you are ready to leave your favorite forum, do you always log out, so that others can access your account via your computer? Or, do you shut the tab down without logging out so you will be logged in the next time y...
Do you ever see heartbreaking memes on Facebook; the ones that ask you to 'like' or comment as a reaction? Do these memes bother you emotionally to the point that you feel compelled to like or comment? What's your reac...
Is there a way to manage or admin a Facebook page without associating with my current Facebook profile?
How many times can your post or image be shared with others on Facebook? For instance, is there a limit to daily shares of a post? Or, is this unlimited?
Do you use the search function before making a new post to ensure you are not posting duplicate threads?
Do you have a dally goal for how many new discussions you will post on your own forum? For instance, maybe you will post five new discussions.
For a forum response it can take me up to a minute or more to write a short response. And, much more time for a more detailed response. But for a forum thread, it takes up to five minutes to create each thread as I do ...
What should you do about forum threads/discussions that add no real value to the forum or are wrong niche for the forum?
What's the most controversial or flammable topic ever started on your forum?
Should free speech belong on a forum? How far do you allow your forum members to go when expressing their opinion on controversial subjects?
Hi I am just creating a service, i have 2 gif files in description area with a description of my services but I am getting the following message "Errors prevented your service from being saved. You there, halt! This a...
Sometimes, when I'm off forum and away from my computer, I'll get an idea for a new discussion. But by the time I get back to the computer, it will have slipped my mind. Does that ever happen? And, how do you keep tra...
Do you have some super long threads that go on for hundreds of pages? What is the longest thread on your forum? And, what's it about?
I'd like to post some news excerpts on niche subjects such as SEO/webmaster, etc. Which subforum would be best for the news to be posted in?
Do you offer any special perks for members such as site games or social networking features (profile page/guest book, etc)?
Did you ever post something on a forum in anger, maybe like a rant, only to be sorry for it later. But maybe you could not delete the thread?
Have you used a news bot to add niche news to your site?
On some niche forums, the same questions/problems get addressed repeatedly. Just wondering if all this repeated content is a good thing or if members should post once and then move on to cover new things?
How do you increase activity during times when people are offline, such as holidays or summer time? What activities can draw members back into the forum to post?
Many really good forums are lost due to hacking. And, even if the owner gets the forum back, there is always lots of damage clean up. How can you keep a forum from being hacked or minimize the possibility that a hacker...
Do you lock a thread after a certain number of responses or leave it open indefinitely?
The trash category is usually for deleted/spam topics that have been moderated and only visible to staff. Do you have a trash category? And, how often do you check to see what has been deleted?
When I first started my forum, I did a few post exchanges and it helped generate a lot of good content and a few regular members. Over all the experience was very positive. Have you tried post exchanges for your forum?
Do you have hidden subforums where you offer content to loyal forum members who have minimum post count? For instance, maybe you have a premium downloads section for anyone with more than 100 posts or those who post reg...
Do you have a minimum standard of post quality such as for length, punctuation, grammar, etc? What if a member is very sloppy with their posts? Do you edit or delete?
On a niche forum, is it really necessary to have a chat thread or one that is for random off topic comments? This thread isn't about anything in particular but mostly random thoughts or comments. Have you used this ide...
Do you always create your new discussions in the morning or evening? Is there a particular time of day that works best for getting most forum responses to new discussions?
How can you find good article writers for your forum, assuming you need content produced that can go into the blog section? Do you have tips for hiring writers? Such as requirements, etc.
The news can be a good source of discussion starters, especially if you can find niche news or others for your general chat section. Do you use this idea as a way to get new content? Maybe by quoting the news source, l...
Do you encourage forum members to post new discussions about the seasons? These discussions wouldn't really be relevant through out the rest of the year, but might spur temporary traffic on forum. Also, how do you hand...
Do you publish articles and tutorials on your forum in your niche? Or, do you only have discussions and responses? And, do the articles get a good response from forum members? In what ways does it help to have a conte...
Are polls really useful for forum discussions? Do they help take a consensus of forum opinion or just provide a distraction? And, do you forum members actually use the forum poll option when provided?
If you have a new forum with little content (such as only a few dozen posts), do you think it can still rank in Google search or attract new members?
Some discussions draw lots of impassioned responses, such as those about politics or ethics. What's the most hot topic or flammable discussion ever started on your forum?
Whenever you post a pinned topic (such as site announcement, rules, contest, etc), do you allow comments on that thread or do you close it to comment?
How many posts does your forum have now? Feel free to come back and update weekly.
