Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
Let me put at this way. As far as SMF forums go, I like your skin. However, pretty much all SMF skins suffer from the same problems. Mainly, they are so blocky. I've never liked SMF but I liked your skin. The icons made it look less blockish and the colors are good. Black and blue go well together. I like the fading bars at the top. The problem with your skin is on thread view. All the posts, apart from being blocky, look the exact same. Little changes between posts which, in a dark skin, looks really boring. Staring at tons of black with some white thrown in isn't that great. Other than that, good job. Also, I like your banner.
(Scored 16/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
I'm not sure why, but your "Shoutbox" NEVER worked for me. Seriously, it never loads. I'm using FF3. As far as your forum is physically layed out, your forum suffers from a similar problem as other forums. You have WAY too many non-wrestling forums. You have 16 or so off-topic boards and 14 or so wrestling forums. Also, I'm curious why there are 3 spoiler forums with no real difference between the three? Maybe I'm missing something but they look the exact same. The othery layout elements are fine, including placing the correct forums in categories, etc. Oh, and having all the battle stuff on the posts make the posts stretched, which is frustrating.
(Scored 14/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
Your forum's been open 7 months or so, and 7K posts is good. 240 members is great. Having the referral system you have looks like it could be a potentially great way to get activity. Maybe hold a contest where whoever can refer the most amount of people in a certain amount of time get a prize. That could boost your activity. That being said though, there's nothing wrong with the activity as it is now. Very good job.
(Scored 20/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
It seems like your staff is you and a few global mods. By that, you are not overstaffed at all. Your staff is active and make a lot of posts, sometimes the posts are iffy on the professional side, but not too bad. I wouldn't hire anymore staffed but as you are right now, you are not overstaffed. All your staff seems to get on quite a bit, so that's good.
(Scored 19/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
I did notice a few errors:
"Got any suggestions or complaints tell us here." should be, "
Got any suggestions or complaints? Tell us here."
"Wanna be an affiliate? Well ask here" should be, "Want to be an affiliate? Well, ask here."
"Are you a sports fan? Well come chat it up with the rest of us sport fans (wrestling and mma have own section) " should be, "Are you a sports fan? Well come chat it up with the rest of us sport fans. (Wrestling and MMA have their own section.)"
"Do you like watching tv or movies? Well then this is the place to discuss it." should be, "Do you like watching TV or movies? Well then this is the place to discuss it."
"This is where you discuss anything else you want. No Spam Though" should be, "This is where you discuss anything else you want. No spam though."
"Are you a fan of something or someone,well make a fan club here or join others." should be, "Are you a fan of something or someone? Well, make a fan club here, or join others."
The other forums were OK but might have had minor errors. Your professionalism was mostly fine.
(Scored 13/20)
Total Score - 84 (Out of 100)
Final Remarks:
What was most liked about the website/forums: The skin, the activity.
What was disliked most about the website/forums: Spelling.
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to join my website? I'm not a huge wrestling fan but if I was, I don't think really much would stop me from joining.
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