Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
Let’s start off with the good first, shall we? First off, your logo really goes along with your skin well. It fits right in. Second, your skin is fluid. I love that since I use a large monitor. Third, I really like that you have a favicon that’s related to your forum.
Now moving on to the not so good… I don’t like that this icon
is so elongated. It makes everything look funky and stretched out. If it were completely circular, it would look better. Second, the colors on the side are…intense. The mixing of black and gray and orange like that is just extrememly intense looking and is not appealing to the eye.
(Scored 15/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
I’m not going to lie; I really don’t get your layout. For a forum called, “N64 Gaming Community”, you seem very wrestling-centric with your forum. I mean, geez, half the gaming forums are wrestling forums. Then you have a whole wrestling section. It seems extremely out-of-place, considering your forum is supposed to be for N64 gaming in general. You also have a ton of random and unnecessary forums. Here are the suggestions I can offer:
1. Get rid of a ton of those random wrestling forums. They have barely any activity, and just look weird.
2. Stop using so many subforums. One specific forum has all of these: PS3, PS2, Xbox360, Other gaming discussion, Nintendo DS, PSP. In total, all of those forums have a whopping 27 topics. Getting rid of those subforums would make everything simpler. Seriously, “Subforums: Mods, Patches, Help & Support, Caws” is yet another one.
3. Simplify! See which forums have activity, and which ones don’t. Eliminate the least active forums.
(Scored 8/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
While your raw statistics (<10K posts) aren’t bad, there are a few things I find troubling. First off, your forum game section has nearly 5K posts. That’s WAY too much. That’s nearly half of your posts. You’re not a general chat forum, forum games should not have that much activity. Try to drive people away from posting there.
Second, it’s a bit unnerving that your top 4 posters are staff. New members are intimidated when the majority of the posts they see are from staff. Your top member only has 489 posts.
In conclusion, your activity itself isn’t bad. It’s the way it’s dispersed in terms of members and forums.
(Scored 11/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
4 admins and 3 mods is a bit much for a forum your size. Some of your staff isn’t extremely active as it is. I wouldn’t say go out and fire people, but I wouldn’t increase your staff’s size. As far as what sort of job your staff does, with the exception of one or two, they’re fairly active. Your staff members post, and they seem to do their job.
(Scored 17/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
There were quite a few errors I noticed with your spelling and grammar.
“This section is for the announcement of the updates and the other important notices of the forum. Here every members can reply but only the admins have got the authority to start topics." This doesn’t read well at all. It should be something like, "This section is for the announcement of updates, and other important notices of the forum. Here every member can reply, but only the admins have the authority to start topics.”
“Introduce yourself here and also let us know if you are leaving. Wish Birthdays to your friends as well in this section.” should be," Introduce yourself here, and also let us know if you are leaving. Wish birthdays to your friends as well in this section.”
“Use any screen recorder to record the videos of any games and post them here so that we can enjoy watching them!!” is an extreme run-on. It should be separated, i.e., “Use any screen recorder to record the videos of any games, then post them here. That way, we can enjoy watching them!”
“Talk about anything you want to talk or discuss” makes absolutely no sense. Make it something like, “Talk about anything you want to discuss not belonging in another forum.”
Those were not the only grammar issues, but those should give you an idea.
(Scored 8/20)
Total Score - 59 (Out of 100)
Final Remarks:
What was most liked about the website/forums: Some appearance things.
What was disliked most about the website/forums: Layout
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to join my website? Fix the grammar and layout.
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