Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
When I first view your forum I could tell straight away from just looking at the banner it was something related to action figures which is pretty good as some forums don't have an image to represent the forums, but if I was you I would highly recommend getting something to relate with comics. Also which is quite a disappointment that it was hosted on ProBoard's, which mostly everyone hates that I know and not many users will join a forum hosted on ProBoard's. In one of your post's I saw you clearly weren't going to move away from ProBoard's which I think is a bad idea as you can gain way more members on a different software, read the Statistics & Activity part of this review and I will continue this there. I highly dislike ProBoard's themes and I think the way the theme has used three shades of blue just disgusts me as I am a fan of the colour blue but that colour scheme just doesn't work. You could work on getting a better theme but I don't think you honestly can get better than that.
(Scored 13/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
Your site has a very nice layout all basic and has an appealing cause towards it. One thing that disappointed me was the way the first category got stretched out when honestly it should be limited to three forums - news, feedback and suggestions, & introductions, all the other five forums can be made into a category their self. The forums are arranged neatly and are all very clear, well done. I quite like the rotating bars at the header were it features some news, and the footer were you display your rules which are better because members can view straight away. Try to space out your affiliates to one space because they are mixed up as you see one category with a line separating it and then the next line will have two lines separating it from the next.
(Scored 15/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
Honestly not much comic forums can get to were you are and some of them have been open for twice as long as you guys have been. It is obvious your members and staff make a great contribution to the forum and you would be no where today without the community. Now as I said in the First Impressions & Appearances that I would continue to talk about changing host's, well you should and this is one of the main reasons. You would see an massive improvement in the forums activity and it gives you a choice to expand more. Half the majority of users that make forums will tell you that ProBoard's is not the way to go and truely it isn't. A user of this forum that recently was hosted on ProBoard's converted to SMF and hasn't wanted to look back yet, the user was Hfcwesker a very well known character to the forum back in the day. Obviously this will take some thinking, time and dedication but it will be worth it and your activity levels will boost and you will see ten times more post's you get a day, if you would like to talk more via PM please do so.
(Scored 15/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
Your forum runs very smoothly so there wasn't much to review on this, but one thing I did notice is that your staff seem very confused at some point's, I think you should get them more involved to the forums, set a task for them to do, if you already haven't get a staff base type thing were you guys can discuss members and what not, it may make the forum run smoother than it all ready is.
(Scored 17/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
You and your staff members and your members to all have positive grammar and don't have any of this leet/lolcat talk around the forum. The forum seems to be very friendly towards new members and all are willing to devote their time and effort to help them out and about the forum. You could work on making some of your post's a little bit bigger though as I see most of the post's are quite short from which I can see.
(Scored 17
/20)
Total Score - 77(Out of 100)
Final Remarks:
What was most liked about the website/forums: The statistics and the banner really worked it off for me.
What was disliked most about the website/forums: Forum host and the stretched first category.
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to join my website? Changing the forums software would make me join.
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