Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
On my arrival at you forum, meeted by a calm green and black styled forum I was quite pleased. The particular style your using is really nice and the forum logo is quite good as well, it looks nice. There would only be one thing that I'd consider a problem with it though, I don't think that the colour suits it very well, I think a darker blue and something lighter for the background of it would be better, just so people can see it more clearly and it stands out. Some downs sides to the forum as well are the fact that the forum didn't seem very active on my visit and some sections there are a lot more posts than on other sections. Some seem quite neglected.
(Scored 16/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
Your site layout is quite nice, the general layout of your forums is well constructed apart from the first set of forums. One thing that is a pet hate of mine is the announcement forum not being right at the top. Even though it's second, announcements are important and important things should appear first and the comments second. Yes it's a common layout, Forum Promotion uses it and so do I but it's succient and makes the forum look more professional as well. Not only that it's helpful to new comers as well. The main thing though is that everything, such as the advertisement forum and the main focus of what the community is all about it placed fine in my opinion and I think that's great.
(Scored 19/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
Right well your stats and activity are not so good really. Your forum has a lot of members and not enough posts in my opinion. The post count is good but then it's not so good when you have nearly one third of the posts on your forum. With the time that you forum has been open, at least 5 thousend posts and a lower member count would be expected but it seems it's the other way round. It is good to have a big community but when your community is not contributing that starts to show that your going wrong somewhere. Also you having a lot of posts may well be the reason for the lack of activity in certain sections. It's not bad that the owner has the most posts but when the owner has one third and some sections are low compred to others, this can make the forum look dead.
(Scored 12/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
I was really surprised by the amount of moderation, in some respects it's good here but really, when you think about it, your forum really goes down on this point because you only have you as staff, one admin and that isn't enough staff on a forum of that size. Your forum does need about one or two new moderators because right now having just you would really put pressure on the forum if your not around and could put it at risk. You seem really active on the forum though which does have a plus side to it in the sense that an admin is present, but when you not there, and a forum at this size you really need to have more staff online to keep the forum in order. On the other hand it looks like your around the forum keeping things in shape so that;s not bad. You just need more staff, badly.
(Scored 8/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
Well your spelling and grammar on the forum, as well as the community in general is quite good, proper english is being used and all that, it's easy to read and is professional looking, however one thing that I picked up on was the forum descriptions, personally there not just right at the moment, there either to big or two small. An example of this is the Advertisements forum, the description is really long and could be shortened to something like "Advertise your forum or website here to gain more exposure to help your site". Something simple and quick to read. Also forums like the "Popular Movie Series" forum is kind of missleading, the description is short and to me doesn't differ from the other movie forum, a more detailed decription could be added there. Those are just examples, anyway not bad here though.
(Scored 17/20)
Total Score - 72 (Out of 100)
Final Remarks:
Not a bad forum and I think it's quite a nice forum, you just need to work on a few things here and there to make it better.
What was most liked about the website/forums:
The logo and layout of the forums were generally quite good and there was a section for everything and the design was nice.
What was disliked most about the website/forums:
The lack of staff and some of the forum descriptions let you down a bit and they need changing to improve.
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to join my website?
I think with a little bit more work on your forum I think I may join up, you'll need to improve on what I've said first though.
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