Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance
When I saw the review request I was quite surprised by the name of your forum, and it is quite catchy and completely different from what I have ever seen. Now moving onto your forum itself, the first thing that catches my eye is your banner, and I have to say I like it quite a lot it is simple and classy. Then you have your slogan “Where Kings are made”, a very catchy slogan and well thought of I think.
I like the way you have different forum icons for each different board I think this looks really well for you forum and sometimes it does not work well with forums but it does for yours. I think that the forum size is too big, I really don’t like seeing forums taking the whole of my screen I prefer them squeezed down to a smaller scale, I just think that making it smaller looks a bit neater and more professional. The colors of your forum suits your theme I think and the colors work well together and they are appealing as well. I am not a big fan of the tabs at the top for different categories, but its okay because you have so many boards; I will come onto this in the next section. IN the near future I would love to see a custom skin, but for now you skin is fine.
(Score: 16/20)
Site Layout
You have 56 forums way too much in my opinion, now in fairness to you most of them have posts have some topics in them bar three of them which have none. Your rules and feedback board has three sub boards, this is not needed what I would do is make a news and announcement board and put all the site rules and ranking system topics in it and, merge the suggestion and ideas with the feedback board, you should do this because you are not really going to add any more topics to the rules or the ranking boards and so they will be empty, and it won’t look as good. In the category the Library you have three boards which are very similar the exclusive Ebooks, programs and looking for something, now I think that all these boards could be merged together as they are all boards which are just lists of things you are looking for. You have a board for proxies surely this could be made into a topic, I see no need for a whole forum dedicated to proxies, in your programming category you have two boards with no posts, I would add topics to it or just get rid of them as people can discuss that issue in the general programming board, and if that board gets too busy then you can make a new board for those topics again. If I don’t have access to the Bank vault I should not be able to see it, it should be like a staff room only the people who have access to it should be able to see it. A forum for mentioning bad people could be made a topic it does not need a forum, I would go through your and just look at what could be merged or got rid of for now, as your forum is still very young.
(Scored 10/20)
Statistics and Activity
3,072 posts in 664 threads,561 members registered. For one and a half months this is very good and this is probably because your forum is quite unique which I admire greatly. A lot of your members however have 0 posts which is really disappointing, this means that you don’t have good discussions going on or I kind of have noticed that some of your members are not as inviting towards new members or members will low post counts, when I was browsing around your forum I noticed that a lot of topics were links or they looked a lot like spam which bots had made, but you had members posting on those topics as well so I wasn’t really certain if they were spam, but I can see how new members might think they are spam. I would recommended that you make more interesting topics and really try and welcome and help new members as they are the most important people to your forum. I looked on your forum statistics and I found this Members who have posted: 36.19%, this is not nearly good enough and you need to change this .
(Scored 12/20)
Staff Moderation
You have two admins and two moderators, this is a good amount of staff to have on your forum, but your admin has not logged in since the beginning of July and has only posted 3 times this is not acceptable and I would suggest him to be removed and you to hire a new moderator instead as I saw a bit of issues between a few of the members, just the usual members being really rude to each other and I think you could do with a mod instead, I also saw some of the members doing a bit of backseat moderation which shows that you don’t have good staff from stopping rules being broken, either your mods are not doing enough or you are not doing enough work. Your super mod has only 50 posts which is not enough in my opinion, and is lacking a bit. However your mod is doing good work and is very helpful and welcoming. I think the admin could do with bi more posts as well.
(Scored 11/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism
The spelling and grammar of boards descriptions are good and the descriptions are professional and tell us what they are about. Your staff team grammar and spelling is also very good, however I believe that your team need to post a lot member so that you interact with the members more and you become a well know staff team. The rules are posted by the moderator and I think that the admin should have posted them and this kind of make the admin look a bit lazy and seems to be passing down a lot of important stuff to his mods.
(Scored 15/20)
Total Score - 64/100
Final Remarks
Good idea for the forum and all the best for the future.
Strong Points
Love the banner and the color of the skin.
Things to Improve
Layout and get more members posting.
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