Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance
A very nice theme! Very bright and lively, it is colorful and has a welcoming feel to it. A excellent color scheme along with some complimentary images. It is very nice and really motivates me to join and post. It seems to reflect your community.
When I first get on, I am overwhelmed with forums, however. You have a huge index, it took me a minute to reach the end of your forum. Consider bunching forums together to save space (lots of it!).
It is jumping out at me to make a post, but at the same time it is a big monster.
(Score: 15/20)
Site Layout
As I said you can rearrange a lot of forums to be 'joined' in the same category or sub-category to save space because you have a very large index and number of forums. I'd also consider removing some of the less active forums. And possibly re-add them in the future for activity.
The "Private Area" category is showing. I am not sure if that is on purpose to say that you have 'secret' forums to post in, if that is the case I'd say make a topic about it and remove the category. It is a waste of space and makes it look messy with an empty category.
I'd move the Help Center up a bit. It is bad if the visitor needs helping finding where to ask help. So make sure it is as available and visible as possible to help out your members.
(Scored 16/20)
Statistics and Activity
You are a month old and are just above half of 1k total forum posts. Start something up! You have a contest forum, but there has never been any contest! Open one up, encourage your members to post, encourage them to participate with other members in the community. The more comfortable they are with the forum, the higher the chance they will post and get your community moving. So I would highly look into adding some contests.
Try hiring private posters, or use the Package Service! It will improve your post count and give you the visual appeal of being active (because not many visitors will join a forum that looks dead, would you?)
Try bringing up your activity and get your community moving!
(Scored 15/20)
Staff Moderation
The staff look to be doing a good job. They are all staying active and helping out where needing. The Staff are the water to your forum's roots. Keeping them active and out there to help members is the best thing you can do.
You are not overstaffed, but you are at a good middle. Stay away from hiring until you get some active posters or some trouble starts arising that is too much for your current staff to handle.
The staff have done a good job of moderating. I read the rules and every post on the forum (and member) is abiding by them. Well written, and well enforced!
(Scored 19/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism
Some Administrator posts are short and not very professional but it is a laid back community. I'd just bump it up when you are posting in the Announcements section because that is where you shine
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You have a lot of Question and Answers as your forum descriptions. Like "Do you love music? Well come talk about music in here!" (example). It gets stale. Try and spice up descriptions, like for the example music forum "Music lovers, take rejoice in this forum!". That will help brighten your descriptions and keep it interesting.
You have kept away from any spelling and grammatical errors in your descriptions. I have to commend you on that (because even I have made a couple of mistakes :lol
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(Scored 17/20)
Total Score - 82/100
Final Remarks
Strong Points
A great, lively theme
Things to Improve
Huge index!
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