Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
Your skin is really interesting. You’ve got a bunch of stats at the top, a tabbed design, and everything is generally different. That’s not necessarily bad though. I’ll go more into that in Site Layout though, since that’s more of a layout thing anyway. Strictly appearance-wise, I like your logos. They go well with your forum, and match your forum’s purpose well. I’m not too much of a fan of your forum icons. They’re just like, circles against a gray square. That’s a bit bland. Your postview screen is good. Everything is easy to read and see. I also appreciate putting the “Favorite Team” and “Favorite Players” fields on the top of the post. However, one thing that would be nice is to remove the “Gender” field from appearing if it’s not been filled in. It just seems to take up space to say “Gender: Undisclosed” on their posts.
(Scored 16/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
OK, let me start out by pointing out two things I really like. I really like the stats at the top. It’s a good way to see everything new at the forum, and it’s unique. I also really like your tabbed design. I’ve seen it work before on other forum, and it’s really nice. However, I don’t know what happened, but I can’t get it to work on my computer. All your forums are just there for me, and selecting tabs does nothing. Oh well, as long as it works for everyone else. One thing that you could use is a favicon. Yours is blank right now. You really should have one for those who choose to add your site as a favorite. As far as your actual layout of forums, I have no complaints.
(Scored 17/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
Wow, you’ve gotten 30,000+ posts in just a couple of months. That is absolutely outstanding. 46 members is a little less impressive, but it also means something good. It means you have a dedicated set of members. You need those dedicated members. It’s something many forums can’t get. One bad activity thing is that some of your forums have like 0-10 posts in them. You should consider removing the ones like that, because it makes your forum appear less active than it really is.
(Scored 18/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
I’m all for having a healthily sized staff team. However, you have like 9 staff members out of a total 46. That means nearly 20% of your forum is staff. Additionally, you have 4 administrators. That’s a huge amount for a forum of your size. I’m not saying fire anyone, but try to not hire anymore for a while. Like I said, it’s good to have quality staff members, but it’s intimidating and unnecessary for a forum to have THAT much. Your staff team does seem very active, thankfully. Only one member of your staff hadn’t been active today.
(Scored 15/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
Your spelling and grammar was generally excellent. There were a few forum descriptions where you had some minor errors, but that isn’t a big deal. A few I noticed:
“Having trouble doing something on the forum? Then please let us know in here and we'll fix it as soon as possible.” should be, “Having trouble doing something on the forum? Then please let us know in here, and we'll fix it as soon as possible.”
“If you have any comments about Hockey Nation, wether they are suggestions, feedback, or anything else post it in this forum.” should be, “If you have any comments about Hockey Nation, whether they are suggestions, feedback, or anything else, post it in this forum.”
“Anything from movies, weather, tv shows, etc.” should be, “Anything from movies to weather, tv shows, etc. can be posted here.”
As I said though, these are very minor.
(Scored 18/20)
Total Score – 84 (Out of 100)
Final Remarks: You have a really nice forum going.
What was most liked about the website/forums: Forum Stats
What was disliked most about the website/forums: Nothing was very severely wrong.
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to join my website? Nothing would stop me.
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