More active members?

[Nathan]

Are you TRYING to make me angry? I'm not saying my Forum is active. It isn't, but its better than all my oldForums. I have been through about 13 Forums, and everyone will stop caring if I make another. If i start over on a new host its just like a new Forum. I don't get why everyone hates Forumotion. There is nothing wrong with it. Your just gonna come in here thinking Forumotion sucks and that I should switch hosts too get more active members. Why should I need a different host, why can't people just join Forumotion Forums. There is NOTHING wrong with them. I know my statisticts are low, you tyring to say my Forum sucks? We've only been open for 2 months god dammit. I try all these different things and nobody comes on and bes active. My basic promotion topic doesn't get replys, Nobody will reply to my need an admin topic or my active for active topic. You are acting like Forumotion sucks. I have been using it forever and theres nothing wrong with it. Maybe I shoulda stated 'HOW TO GET ACTIVE MEMBERS ON A FORUMOTION SITE" Whats so important about a TLD? It just replaces forumotion with .com or .net....... Why is that so important? Its just words and you have to pay money for it! Nobody should care about joining a site just cuz a TLD. Also I tried that my parents won't get me one. I'm listening to other suggestions, but I don't like when people tell me to switch hosts. I'm sorry.

Trust me if I wanted to make you angry, I could say the truth so bluntly that you'd probably go and run to your parents crying your eyes out. Im not even going to bother trying to help you because you think you know everything, yet your forum is not active, nor never will for that matter, and that's the blunt truth.

All you need is a PayPal account, they're completely free to make and require no credit card information.

Legally you need to be over 18 to have a PayPal account.

I was at namecheap and it said i need a credit card for my account

NameCheap doesn't require a verified PayPal or for you to have a credit card linked to the account, they just require you to have the funds in your PayPal account prior to trying to purchase a domain.. :lol:

I was at namecheap and it said i need a credit card for my account

Godaddy.com has a PayPal option. You just have to look around to find sites that accept PayPal. 😛

GoDaddy actually requires a verified PayPal account (I am 95% sure anyway)

Some countries, such as the US, require you to verify your Paypal account with a credit card or bank account. You can't do much with an unverified Paypal, if memory serves me correctly.

No matter what Country your in (as long as PayPal is in that Country) you can verify your PayPal account at your own discretion, you are not forced to verify it.

Nope, that's not true, Bieber. :O You can do everything with an unverified PayPal. :O

Actually your statement isn't true, most of the time you can use your unverified PayPal account to buy things online and whatever but a few handful of sites will require you to have a verified PayPal account (especially sites where huge money is exchanged) for protection and identification purposes.

 

[David]

Note: I don't wanna hear "get a different host" because its getting annoying. After all the forums i have been through, I have to stick with the one I have now. I already got high statiticts, so I'm not gonna start back at 1 member 0 posts just for another host. If you give me an answer like these you are not helping me. Idc I will never leave Forumotion.

I think the lack of understanding and maturity is your major reason for your downfall. Since you're only 12, you probably haven't had much experience with anything really. You should be experimenting and testing out different hosts, domains and ideas and see if this is really what you want to do.

People suggest a new host (ie. host other than free hosts) because they have had success on those hosts, and that they will only join if you are using genuine hosting. Remember that the members you are disagreeing with are the people you want on your forums.

Your lack of experience is evident by saying your 5000 posts is "high", but in reality, it's extremely low. Actually, starting again from zero and reaching 5000 probably won't take that long if you know how to gain those members and posts back.

How can you say that suggesting a new host is not helping when clearly being on Forumotion with a Forumotion domain is not allowing you to succeed? I think 5 years down the track, you will have a different opinion of Forumotion; I can assure you that. You are disagreeing with experienced members. A novice such as yourself should take the suggested ideas more seriously. For the domain idea, why not work your way for it? Eg. gain that 6000FP$ on Forum Promotion for an exchange with a Top Level Domain.

If you want advice, then you need to provide us with a bit more information to prove what you have done. Where have you advertised? Where have you attempted to gain members? What have you done on your forum to interest members?

 

[Deleted member 1609]

David, you can't really say that five thousand posts is "low." There's no universal scale of what level of activity is acceptable and what level of activity is not. For example, if you run a very focused RP forum, there may simply not be a very large number of people who enjoy that type of RP. However, even though there aren't many members, the members who actually are there may still thoroughly enjoy the site and its content. In my book, it's about how satisfied the users are rather than competing on an imagined universal scale of activity.

 

[David]

David, you can't really say that five thousand posts is "low." There's no universal scale of what level of activity is acceptable and what level of activity is not. For example, if you run a very focused RP forum, there may simply not be a very large number of people who enjoy that type of RP. However, even though there aren't many members, the members who actually are there may still thoroughly enjoy the site and its content. In my book, it's about how satisfied the users are rather than competing on an imagined universal scale of activity.

Since the word "low" is a comparative word, you must consider extreme highs and extreme lows, so when you place 5000 posts on the comparative scale, it is considerably low. Please understand that I am stating that in the context of knowing his forum is a Pokemon/gaming forum, not a focused RP forum.

Enjoyment/satisfaction is completely irrelevant to my point though; it's another point to consider in terms of the "success" of a forum which the would be a fair statement, which I support fully.

 

[Nathan]

Well generally it's quite easy to get 5000 posts on a forum, as a forum owner you should accumulate that within a couple of months at least (if you want your forum to succeed anyway). Therefore I agree with David in saying 5000 posts is quite low.

 

[HawkPokemon]

You guys are just being assholes cuz im 12 and "immature" I'm not immmature as most 12 year old son the internet. In fact I have seen 19 year olds that act more imature with me.

Why can't I just stay with Forumotion? Why can't you give me tips to run my FORUMOTION forum. I really thank Snobo for supporting me. I have done hard work. 5000 posts is a big achievment. And so is 100 members. You see many forums out there with 100 members, but with like 7 posts.<br /><br />-- 04 Mar 2011, 18:37 --<br /><br />Its not easy, cuz none of my members post. Thats why I made this for more active members. I shouldn't have to change hosts. It sounds stupid "your hosted by forumotion I'm not joining" "oh you don't have a tld I ain't joining


I was looking for tips to get people to join my non domain forumotion forum, there has to be some way, i like forumotion, and idc what ure opinion is about it, if u dont like forumotion, then this isn't the right topic to be in

 

[Cam]

I agree with you, it does sound stupid. But that's the way forums work. For example, Cmt Sports Forum would be more successful if it wasn't on ProBoards. Most people see the ProBoards thing, and say, "HA! ProBoards, I am not joining, ProBoards sucks!" Same with Forumotion. It's not a good way to look at it, because when it all comes down to it, the design and content (mainly content) is what really matters. I personally don't think this way, but most people on forums do. They are trying to help you though, and you are just throwing out rude remarks.

Also, you don't even have a link to your forum in your signature. When you join a forum, it's best you always put a link to your forum in your signature when it is allowed. You are really missing out on a very good advertising method by not putting your signature to good use.

 

[HawkPokemon]

I agree with you, it does sound stupid. But that's the way forums work. For example, Cmt Sports Forum would be more successful if it wasn't on ProBoards. Most people see the ProBoards thing, and say, "HA! ProBoards, I am not joining, ProBoards sucks!" Same with Forumotion. It's not a good way to look at it, because when it all comes down to it, the design and content (mainly content) is what really matters. I personally don't think this way, but most people on forums do. They are trying to help you though, and you are just throwing out rude remarks.

Also, you don't even have a link to your forum in your signature. When you join a forum, it's best you always put a link to your forum in your signature when it is allowed. You are really missing out on a very good advertising method by not putting your signature to good use.

You are right. And yes I forgot ALL about the sig.

 

[Nathan]

You guys are just being assholes cuz im 12 and "immature" I'm not immmature as most 12 year old son the internet. In fact I have seen 19 year olds that act more imature with me.

Why can't I just stay with Forumotion? Why can't you give me tips to run my FORUMOTION forum. I really thank Snobo for supporting me. I have done hard work. 5000 posts is a big achievment. And so is 100 members. You see many forums out there with 100 members, but with like 7 posts.

-- 04 Mar 2011, 18:37 --

Its not easy, cuz none of my members post. Thats why I made this for more active members. I shouldn't have to change hosts. It sounds stupid "your hosted by forumotion I'm not joining" "oh you don't have a tld I ain't joining


I was looking for tips to get people to join my non domain forumotion forum, there has to be some way, i like forumotion, and idc what ure opinion is about it, if u dont like forumotion, then this isn't the right topic to be in

Ok ill tell you what.

If you find me a forumotion forum with the forumotion subdomain with a total of 700,000+ posts and 20,000+ members (I find these stats to be a successful forum) within the next hour (because your online), I will personally pay for your own TLD and a year of Hawk Host's basic hosting package.

Good luck.

 

[HawkPokemon]

Here its becoming inactive but it should count

http://hidecodesgalore.forumotion.net/forum

 

[David]

You guys are just being assholes cuz im 12 and "immature" I'm not immmature as most 12 year old son the internet. In fact I have seen 19 year olds that act more imature with me.

We frankly do not care if you are 12 or 112. You're lack of understanding is showing a lack of maturity on the Internet; no one can debate that. The context of using the phrase "lack of maturity" is not synonymous with your understanding of "immature", which you implicitly attribute that to yourself and the level of behaviour, whereas I attributed "lack of maturity" with your understanding and knowledge. In the context of behaviour, do you think labeling us as "assholes" and having incorrect grammar and spelling is showing that you are mature?

I was looking for tips to get people to join my non domain forumotion forum, there has to be some way, i like forumotion, and idc what ure opinion is about it, if u dont like forumotion, then this isn't the right topic to be in

I've asked you many questions which you seem to ignore. How can we help if you can't provide basic information? Allow me to quote myself:

If you want advice, then you need to provide us with a bit more information to prove what you have done. Where have you advertised? Where have you attempted to gain members? What have you done on your forum to interest members?

Here its becoming inactive but it should count

http://hidecodesgalore.forumotion.net/forum

Hide Codes Galore shouldn't count as it ran using a TLD for a long time, gaining its posts and members from using their .org domain.

 

[HawkPokemon]

Of course it did ;( just my luck

 

[Nathan]

Of course it did ;( just my luck

That's why you should get a TLD.

Also make sure their English, non spammed and never used a TLD previously.

 

[HawkPokemon]

Theres no way I can get a TLD myself.

 

[David]

Theres no way I can get a TLD myself.

Then use other methods, eg. Forum Promotion's TLD offer.

 

[HawkPokemon]

Damn that could take forever to get 6000 FP XD.

I do apoligise for my immaturity.

 

[Yehya]

i like forumotion

it's easy to set-up a forum with it

More Forumotion hosted sites seem to get hacked over the summer months than just about any other host out there.

you're being warned

I'm never using forumotion again

after being warned and not switching to another host


i understand you can't buy hosting
so Posting2Hosting (or is it Post2Host?)
you post on forum(s) to receive host based on how many posts per month
as low as 200 posts per month


as for domain, as suggested above get 6000 FP
easy way to get 6000 FP
you can get 6000 FP$ in 2 weeks
there are 2 deals that you can make to get 1750FP right now
1 is an auction, the other is doing 100 posts
take action in them and report back once done and collect your reward

 

[D]

you need a hook, something that will keep them coming back.

 

[HawkPokemon]

Lol I'm back at my forumtoion forum if you say that post, it was because of a hack, but everythings solved now, i have it covered.

Also I was offered a TLD by forumtoion for being active.

http://www.globalpokeunion.com

 

[Aki-P]

Infernhawk,
I read through several posts here, but take it from me that I understand your position.

I started around the age of 15, not 12 but I'd say we were in comparable positions.

I too could not pay for a Top Level Domain, I too could not pay for a proper webhost.

I resorted to several free services, many I can't even remember to do this day. But my guess were mostly InvisionFree and phpBB.

But you're 12, you're young, to say you swear you're going to stay on Forumotion forever is pretty much digging in your forum's grave.

I checked out HideCodesGalore, they're the first Forumotion I've seen reach that high of posts/users.
But, look at them now. It's like you said, it's dying & becoming inactive. Is that where you want to be?

Forumotion lacks a ton of flexibility, there's not a lot you can add & customize.
You also can't take your database with you if you're able to pay for a better server, or want to convert the entire database to a new forum software.

That allows you to change Forum Software WITHOUT having to start over with 0 users and 0 posts, your prime concern.

None of sites I've run with success were ever done with free services, except for MyBB, but that's just an open source Forum software.

Host & Domains were of course all paid for.

Perhaps you can try talking your parents into a basic starting plan at 1and1.com
That's where I started, you can choose a plan for 3 - 5 bucks a month which includes 1 free domain.

Normally 1and1.com isn't a host that I would recommend, but it works for a starting out site/forum, and you can move it to a better host when you can.

You may even be able to convince your parents to enroll you in separate Computer classes, which can require you to purchase a Host & Domain as a class requirement. Then your parents can't say no! LOL

http://www.thebiggestboards.com/
Look at the biggest forums out there, Forumotion isn't even listed as an option. It's not recognized.

EDIT:

Oh, and your chat box needs to go.

They're forum killers, your active users spend all their time posting there than on the actual forums.