Opening a forum in members areas questions...

[deanb]

If you were to start a new site, and wanted a forum in the members area, would you open the site with the forum, or wait until there were a lot of members? Also, would you give away some free passes to kinda beef the forum up, or just do it yourself and have multiple board personalities?

[basschick]

i wouldn't open a board till i had plenty of members or else i'd open it outside the member area. i might ask some friends to post, i suppose.

[Lee]

I totally agree with Patti on this one, thats one of the mistakes i made on Condom Cash, i added forums to all the sites when they first launched and they were dead, which meant members who were new to the site didnt feel the site was worth staying a member of.

As soon as i removed the forums, membership retention started to increase.

Regards,

Lee

[IdolKnights]

Outside of the members area - My vote as well.

Also, I would open with a small number of sections. The downfall to a few Forums is that they open with 20 sections and one or two posts in each. It looks like a dead forum unworthy of Joining.

[Chilihost]

I much prefer forums with only 1 or 2 sections too.