Your Quick Review
Pros
+ I really like your banner, it's fun and great looking. It's a really great entrance to the forum! I would say that something like this would turn on potential members!
+ Your stats are fairly good for a forum of your size. You're getting around 2,519 posts a month which is very nice in my opinion, so hold this amount per month and your stats will grow quickly.
+ You have eight posts per thread (average which is good, but this gets made a lot higher than it really should be because of some posts like the count to 5,000 posts thread).
+ It's good to see you don't have heaps of staff, four is a good number for now and I'm sure over time your staff team will grow at a sustainable rate.
Cons
- I believe you should split the forums games from the general discussion board, for the sake of making your board look clean and professional. Although you may want these threads to be seen early on so people post in it and your post count goes up, it does look a bit messy.
- The main admin's profile is telling me that he averages around 3-4 posts per day. This is quite bad and is showing not a lot of dedication. Two of your staff members are averaging under/around 1 post per day. Staff sometimes keep a forum going, more dedication to posting might mean you will get more posts and members in the long run who decide to stay active. The most active member has an average of 9 posts, this is triple what the main admin and other staff members are achieving.
- Personally I think the login/register board at the top of the forum is a bit unusual and not really required. You could probably make something of higher quality and put a notice at the top of the forum, under the banner. This will look a lot nicer, but it does come down to personal taste.
- Your board has 14 posts per member. This is quite a draw back from all your previous great stats because it shows members are signing up, posting a few times and leaving or not even posting at all. A way to make these stats better is the exchange board here at FP, but if you want these stats to go up, you will be wanting to request quite large posts, example 50+ otherwise people coming and doing 10 posts as an exchange won't make these posts per members stats budge much.
Final/General Thoughts
Your forum seems to be quite good, but the activity from the staff is a major draw back.
You should be proud of...
Some of your members are very active and are making a good contribution posting wise to the forum.
You really need to work on...
How much the staff post. They need to post more for the sake of the forum.
Score - 5/10
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