Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
vBulletin! You don’t see many forums with vB. The fact that you have that is huge. The banner is weird, but unique. The ChatBox is not good to see. It’s just taking activity away from posting and just putting it into a box. It’s better to just have people have conversations in the chat forum. The theme seems a little default and not something that would help draw people in. I’d add some orange in somewhere as that’s the first color I see when I look at your banner. Not too much though as that would get annoying.
(Scored 14/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
I like the order that you put your forums in, but I think the Site News and Updates forum, the Competitions and Events forum, and the Suggestions and Feedback forum should be in a different section above everything else. I’d also throw a welcome board into that same section as the 3 forums I listed above. I’d also think about moving the YouTube Videos forum down to the Hobbies and Lifestyle section, it just seems like it would go better in that section.
(Scored 14/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
Your forum has been open for about 37 days. You have 399 members which means that you’re averaging over 10 new members per day! You’re only getting about 6.3 new threads per day and about 19.8 new posts per day. With all of the members that you have, you should be getting a lot more posts per day. You’re average member also has less than 2 posts. That means that you’re getting a lot of sign ups and they’re leaving without posting. You have had 19 members and 542 guests visit your forum within the last 42 hours. That’s really great to see, but now if you could only get those guests to sign up.
(Scored 12/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
You’re the only staff member that appears on the Forum Leaders page, but I see that there’s one more, and with your forums activity, that’s probably all you need for now. You have about 42% of your forums posts which shows that you are trying to create discussion around the forum. You’re doing great at moderating your forum and attempting to get more discussion going. You’re other moderator hasn’t been on in about a month. He does have about 17% of your forum’s posts though, so he used to be pretty active. If you can get him to come back, great, otherwise you don’t want him on the staff team.
(Scored 13/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
In the Competitions and Events forum description, “regularly” is spelled wrong, and “don’t” needs an apostrophe. In the YouTube forum description, the Y and T in “youtube” should be capitalized, “megalulz” seems really unprofessional and you should look into changing that. In the Spam forum’s description, it’s supposed to be “affected” not “effected”. In the Television forum’s description, the “whets” is spelled wrong and it needs to have an apostrophe as well. The “I” in the Sports forum description at the start of the second sentence needs to be capitalized.
(Scored 13/20)
Total Score – 66 (Out of 100)
Final Remarks:
Your forum has potential. There’s always going to be something to talk about. You just have to get your members to actually post and get all of your guests to sign up.
What was most liked about the website/forums:
You’re on vB. That’s a huge plus when people are looking for a forum to join. vB is a lot better than any free software and it shows that you’re willing to put money into your forum.
What was disliked most about the website/forums:
Most of your members have either disappeared, or they rarely post. I also don’t like seeing all of those guests and no one is signing up.
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to join my website?
Change the colors a little bit as I stated in the First Impressions, and add something unique that other general discussion forums are missing.
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