I agreed with you as i see a lot of peoples who changes their forums every week as i am support staff of hosting site that's why i get to know for eg , one user comes and ask some help for warez site then next week he again come and ask help with making webhost ( he has reseller account)kavin said:
People who close sites down 2 weeks after opening
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When i started my Nintendo DSi Forum i thought it was going to be easy i got it active but the mistake i regret is lack of updates It lasted for 6 months couldnt get activity back besides i wasnt intersted in that nicne(Genre) Anymore so i spoke with the staff they agreed starting again would be the best thing thats how i got Webmaster Addict ive been doing more updates since learnt by my mistakes it did have a .com dsirage.com sadly it was on forumotion there lack of updates didnt help the community
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Yea, so, just deleted two posts. I'm horribly tired, and don't feel like sorting out a potential flame war, so let's not point fingers or anything, keep the topic on topic.
Mkay, thanks, bye.
Mkay, thanks, bye.
I know people who do this and it really annoys me. Yet i still get their emails "We re-opened come back!" a week later. "We're closing!" super annoying....
It comes down to this: Either you have what it takes to run a forum, or you don't. Simple. 🙂
It comes down to this: Either you have what it takes to run a forum, or you don't. Simple. 🙂
Several members of my board have done this very thing. In two instances I agreed(reluctantly) to invest some of my time and effort into helping them get their start up boards going. Member registrations accumulated and posting activity began to take on some kind of consistency and then suddenly both discussion sites had been closed down or deleted entirely.ShadyX said:
I found this to be very disappointing and I was admittedly very annoyed. Because of this I am no longer willing to help others in getting their "start up" boards going.
Getting an internet message board up and going with regular posting activity while developing a "core" of active members takes a lot of work, patience and the willingness to receive a lot of critique and criticism. It also takes time...something that seems to be lost among many who start up a message board seemingly expecting it to just take off with activity. I'm sure boards like this exist but they are, I'm thinking, the exception and not the rule.
Richard Hayes
Addicted
People who join new sites are in my view making a rod for their own back and when joining a new site should be prepared for it not to last, with social networks taking huge amount of users away from forums in the past few years a lot of new forums fail.
Theses days it takes a look of hard graft and dedication to establish a forum, the problem is a lot of new admins do not realise the work required in setting up and establishing a new forum. You have to realise most forums will take 6-12 months to become popular and it is rare for sites to become big over night, yet a lot of admins see a successful site and think I can do that and then when they realise there is more work to it then copying an established site, they shut it down.
I myself have a few rules I keep to before joining a forum. I never join a site that is new and will wait no matter how good it is until a forum has been going at least 6 months and got a decent post amount and activity. By sticking to this the forums I have joined have been decent places to be a user of and not one has shut down.
Theses days it takes a look of hard graft and dedication to establish a forum, the problem is a lot of new admins do not realise the work required in setting up and establishing a new forum. You have to realise most forums will take 6-12 months to become popular and it is rare for sites to become big over night, yet a lot of admins see a successful site and think I can do that and then when they realise there is more work to it then copying an established site, they shut it down.
I myself have a few rules I keep to before joining a forum. I never join a site that is new and will wait no matter how good it is until a forum has been going at least 6 months and got a decent post amount and activity. By sticking to this the forums I have joined have been decent places to be a user of and not one has shut down.
Lockdown738
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This irritates me to no end. I just joined a brand new site and am excited to see it grow, and then I get a message a few weeks later announcing it's deletion. If you ask me, it shows a lack of patience. Some people need to understand that an online forum can takes months, even years, to get completely off the ground.
Richard Hayes
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Lockdown738 said:
While I do sympathise with the users who end up feeling cheated, when you join a new forum it comes with this risk, before joining watch a forum and see how it develops first and sometimes it is worth finding out about the owner as well.
I know of one member who is currently doing this and it pisses me off. He comes out with a forum, makes it look even half decent, and then shuts down a few days to a month later. This guy has seriously let me down, and I will refuse to join any more of his forums until he starts proving to us that he can keep a forum open for a period of time.
You know who you are.
You know who you are.
TexasTornado
New Arrival
ShadyX said:
Some people don't realize how much time has to be put to create a proper foundation for a forum to grow.
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You got to admit, .Xynical does have a point. Not sure if I'm even quoting the right person, here. But there is a difference between opening and closing forums for the sake of merely pissing people off, and closing a site in order to move to a better host. Maybe a move can't be helped. If you're on one of the crappiest hosts on the Internet, would you really think, "oh, well, I think I'm gonna move to a new host just to piss my members off."? Absolutely not, especially if the move can't be helped. Another reason that would make a move mandatory whether you liked it or not is that sometimes a seemingly good host can just disappear out of thin air, and not leave their clients with anything except refunds in their PayPal accounts (this is, of course, assuming a person in question had been on advanced hosting from day one). So, you'd get your money back through PayPal, AlertPay, or whatever method you normally use to pay off your hosting bill, but then all of a sudden, things are going good, activity levels are as good as they're going to get for a while, but then the host closes down without even so much as an email warning you of the closure of said host. Then, providing you were permitted to grab a backup before the hosts closure, or if you weren't, that you had a recent backup to where you wouldn't have to make up so much work, aside from reinstalling all the mods you had on your site before the closure, you could simply send out a mass PM or mass Email explaining what happened and why you guys wound up moving. When I was with Forumotion, we used to have downtime just about every weekend. My being new to owning a forum, at first I thought the downtime we were experiencing was my fault, as I like to learn how things are done by screwing off with it and finding out for myself (hands-on learning), but then, as the months went on, it was one weekend after the next that there were loads of downtime. After about, probably 3 weekends of being unable to go on my own forum and even so much as post, I finally said screw it with this host and just sought out another one. So sometimes closing sites can't be helped. The desire to keep the site open is there, but when there's more problems than an admin can handle, well, you have a tough decision to make: "Do I want to stick around and keep fighting with this host that has so much crappy uptime? Or would I be better off closing the forum, grabbing the most recent backup I can find, and move off to a different host?" So really, like most situations, there are more than one thing that can come into play in these cases.
I think it's annoying; I mean, you put all this hard work into it and then just throw it away like yesterdays news?
It's just lousy, and people who do that should not have a forum if they get rid of it so quickly.
I've seen this twice recently too, one was a movie forum and it was closed within the month; later on I found out they did the same thing the previous month...
Another forum was an advertising forum that was very sucessful, but a month later the admin decided to close it down and turn it into a "Zombie discussion forum". Because of course, when I don't want an advertising forum anymore... I instantly think "I'mma change it to a zombie discussion forum! YEAH! 😀"
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The zombie discussion forum is no longer as well. XD
It's just lousy, and people who do that should not have a forum if they get rid of it so quickly.
I've seen this twice recently too, one was a movie forum and it was closed within the month; later on I found out they did the same thing the previous month...
Another forum was an advertising forum that was very sucessful, but a month later the admin decided to close it down and turn it into a "Zombie discussion forum". Because of course, when I don't want an advertising forum anymore... I instantly think "I'mma change it to a zombie discussion forum! YEAH! 😀"
:lol:
The zombie discussion forum is no longer as well. XD
I dislike it when people do this. Remember, Rome wasn't built in a day, and a forum won't be an instant success right off the bat either! If your site isn't a success in a few days, weeks or months, it's not the end of the world, it can easily just take a while for a site to grow more popular.
Then again, it's not all bad. Many of the people who do this were only interested in the money or instant fame anyway, and probably wouldn't have ran a decent forum if it'd done well anyway. Maybe it's good their lack of patience got rid of them...
Then again, it's not all bad. Many of the people who do this were only interested in the money or instant fame anyway, and probably wouldn't have ran a decent forum if it'd done well anyway. Maybe it's good their lack of patience got rid of them...
Well, my opinion is they have absolutely no idea what a forum means and are not ready to put in the money and the HARD work you need to put into one to make it work, especially nowadays. Starting a forum is not just installing a script, that's the first thing you do. Then you need to constantly work, try to make it active, create good content etc.
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