Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
- I felt strongly that your custom banner was a little disappointing. You have a lot of space that could be filled with something nice. Maybe you could do this by adding a slogan, bigger title, or even another image? While it is nice I felt like I should have seen more.
- To be honest blue is my favorite color so I must say good job on the overall style color choice. The shade was nice and I like how you didn’t overuse it. While I love the color blue I can’t stand seeing it overused. Good job for not doing that. You balanced everything well color wise.
- Good job on those buttons. I do believe I’ve seen them before (or maybe my mind is playing tricks on me) but I am quite a fan of those buttons. Good job and I feel you made the right selection on buttons to go with the style.
(Scored 18/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
- You pretty much aced this section of the review. Everything is placed and organized very well. You have your more important boards towards the top of your forum and you’re least important, general talk/off topic boards towards the bottom. This is the way I like to see forums laid out and organized. Good job.
-You made the smart move of placing that “bulletin board” type of advertisement space in the footer of your forum. I can almost guarantee that I would have been turned off if you had decided to place that anywhere else. Once again smart move on your part. Good job!
(Scored 19/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
- According to the information you provided you only have been opened for about 5 days. I must say I’m pleased with activity and your forum statistics. You’ve been doing something right. Good job!
- Stats overall are impressive. In a mere five days, if you provided an accurate opening date the forum has received 2,797 total posts, 363 topics, and 58 total members. With those stats that means you are averaging 559 post per day, 73 topics per day, and 12 new members a day. I must say this is very, very impress considering how long you have been open. Good job mate!
- So far it seems you and your members have done a good job of spreading and evening out the amount of posts in topics in all your boards. Some of your boards have more topics or posts than another but that is to be expected considering how long you have been online for.
-Though it’s only been 5 days I did expect to see more member names in your 24 hour list. Based on your stats I strongly expected to see many more names. The members in the list must be very active members. Try to get back some of your other members.
(Scored 17/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
- As no account was provided for this review I was not able to view inside the member groups to see how many total staff you had for each group. However I did look at your 24 hour list and see that you had two Community Team members, one Assessment Team member, and one Parcel Team member online during the past 24 hours.
-You don’t seem overstaffed according to your 24 hours list aside from really the two Community Team members, however that is not anything to major. You have one member to manage the Assessment Team and another member to manage the Parcel board in case a member requests a Parcel. I did expect to see an Administrator online in the past 24 hours however that wasn't what I saw. Try to stay active on the board.
(Scored 15/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
- The overall grammar and professionalism of your board descriptions is near perfect. I didn’t find any grammatical or punctuation errors. I don’t really see that as much as I wish I would on forums. Good job on description grammar and punctuation.
- I choose a popular thread that gets a lot of views on forums (hopefully anyways) and that was your rules thread. I didn’t find any obvious mistakes but for some reason I didn’t feel the professionalism there was as good. The rules felt short and brief and simply thrown together in a few minutes tops. Sometimes that’s good but I felt for a Promotion/Webmaster forum that there were some rules or guidelines missing that should have been included. However you did say you are a laid back community so maybe you’re just not going to add rules until there begins to be a problem. If that’s your strategy then I feel that it’s okay. Maybe state that new rules could be added and to check back?
(Scored 18/20)
Total Score - 87/100
Final Remarks:
You run a nice, nice forum. I might even consider registering myself! I think that you could get that forum to be pretty darn big if you keep focusing on the basics: Advertising, recruiting and maintaining a flow of new posts and topics.
What was most liked about the website/forums: What I liked most about the forum was the style. You choose blue (the best color of all) and didn't overuse it or any of the other other colors. You have good custom buttons and a decent custom banner that I think with some small additions could be great and eye catching!
What was disliked most about the website/forums: What I disliked most about your forum was actually your activity. Your statistics are good but your activity wasn't were I expected based on the statistics. I really thought I would see more member names in the 24 hours list. Now, I do understand you have been only open for a mere 5 days. However I could find nothing else to share here.
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to join my website? Boast activity and add to your custom banner and I think you will really have my attention. The main thing about the appearance that is bugging me is the banner. That is the main thing that I will want to see fixed before I consider joining.
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