Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
I really like your banner. It's very…powerful.
😛 It looks really good though, honestly. However, your skin is sort of just meh to me. I mean, for ibFree, I suppose it's OK, but it isn't as modern looking as a forum nowadays should be. For example, I can't even tell what those board read/unread icons are supposed to be. Honestly, they look like deformed basketballs. I'm not even going to attempt the other ones. I do like the rank icons though, those look good. The color scheme is OK but there is a major overload of red. Everything seems to be a shade of bright red, even some of the text. Honestly, I could go on and on about some good and bad things about the skin. To get to the point, I honestly think you should look for a new one. This one you have here just isn't doing it for me, sorry. It's too blocky, it looks old, the colors are odd, etc.
(Scored 10/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
'Your forum confuses me a bit. You have an anime forum/RPG mix. You need to pick one or the other. It's fine to have an RPG forum for users to run their own, but you shouldn't have an RPG forum that has as many forums as your anime forum. You should try to focus on one. Other than that though, your forum is layed out fine. You don't suffer from a problem many other forums have, and that's having too many off-topic boards. Glad to see yours was not like that. All of your forums were put into their respective category correctly. I would just focus on the one complaint I mentioned earlier and I think you'll be fine.
(Scored 17/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
For two to three months, your stats are just OK. You should really be at 1,000 posts or more by now. Thankfully you're at ForumPromotion, so maybe try ordering packages when you can. You really do need to get more members. I'd try to get up to, say, 60 members and then working on getting them active and posting. Some forums don't even have a single post yet. You could get your staff to at least get a few posts in them so they don't look completely dead. If there's one thing that is going to turn off new members, it's definitely having 0-post forum. Overall, your stats aren't exactly horrible, but they aren't good either.
(Scored 14/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
You are not overstaffed, which is really good. A lot of new forums think that by hiring 500 staff members they'll get active members out of them. It doesn't work that way, and I'm glad to see your forum isn't like that. Most of your staff is active, except one member hasn't been on in over 10 days, which really should not be happening. That's the only thing though. Your staff has plenty of posts most of the time, and while they aren't perfect in professionalism, it's not bad. I would just suggest not hiring any staff, and trying to figure out what happened to that one guy. You're doing good in this section though, keep it up.
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(Scored 17/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
I am thoroughly amazed. I have not seen spelling and grammar be perfect in a while. Your forum descriptions had perfect grammar and spelling, very nicely done. Most forums have at least a few errors. This is the one section where your forum truly shined. As far as professionalism, you and your staff could use a little better professionalism around the forum. Some posts had excessive punctuation. One example was, "Meet The staff!!!" That's going to make members not want to take your forum seriously, and that's not good at all. On a plus side, the announcements I looked at were done were formatted and written very well and looked nice. I also like that image you use at the top of announcements.
(Scored 19/20)
Total Score - 77 (Out of 100)
Final Remarks: Unfortunately, not many people are going to want to choose your forum over more established ones.
What was most liked about the website/forums: Spelling.
What was disliked most about the website/forums: Skin, stats.
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to join my website? I would take a look over what I've suggested, fix up the skin, the layout, etc.
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