RuneGear.net Forum Review

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Name of Forum: Rune Gear - RuneScape Community Forums
Forum Link: http://www.Runegear.net
Type of Review ( Quick Review / Forum Review / Blog Review ): Forum
Date Forum Opened: July 11th, 2010.
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Additional Notes: We have 3 custom, never seen before plugins. A vouches system (first ever on MyBB with it's own system), a hide content until post count reached plugin (first on MyBB), and the first ever RuneScape to Rune Gear account bridge. This lets users bridge their RuneScape account into their Rune Gear account.
We've been opened for a year, but had about 3 months of downtime due to attacks and other numerous issues. Our 1 year anniversary is in 3 days. The theme is custom designed by me.

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First Impressions & Appearance

When I visited your forum, my first impression was very good. I saw an active inviting forum. I like your blue and black theme. I noticed that the menu that takes you to different boards of the forum is red. The theme is blue and black, so this looks out of place. I see that you are having your 1 year anniversary contest going on. This could get new members and encourage members to post. I see that sponsors get 1.5 points instead of 1. This is a good way to get people to buy sponsor.You have 3 unique plugins as well, which is excellent. Keep up the good work.
(Score: 18/20)

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Site Layout

Your forum has 37 boards. For most forums this would be too much, but your forum is active enough to keep them all active. There are a few changes you could make, though. All of your general discussion boards have over 100 topics in each, except for sports, which only has 33. I think you should change sports to a sub board under The Lobby. Under the Runescape category, all the boards are very active, except for Runescape Mini Games. I would change this to a sub board under Runscape General Discussion. Malware removal has less posts in it and should be a sub board under Computer Safety or Computer / Device Discussion. I think you could remove the Groups category completely and move the Recruitment section to Runescape. Other than these minor things, your layout is good for a forum of your size.
(Scored 17/20)

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Statistics and Activity

Your forum started July 11th 2010. This means you have been open exactly one year. In the last year, you have been down for 3 months, so you have only been open 9 months. In 9 months, you have made 206, 991 in 19, 253 threads. This is amazing! Your forum is extremely active. You have over 5000 members. Good job on getting so many. You have an average of 39 posts per member. This isn’t amazing, but it’s pretty good. All your staff appear to be active and posting around. Good job, you seem to know what you’re doing.

(Scored 20/20)

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Staff Moderation


Your management page shows you have 2 admins, 3 staff and 7 moderators. For a forum of your size, I think you could use an extra staff member or 2. It would only help you. All of your staff appear to be posting around everyday with professionalism. Your staff appear to be doing a good job moderating and finding spammers / users that need to be banned. There does not appear to be too much trouble on your forum. Good job choosing your staff members. Keep up the good work.
(Scored 18/20)

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Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism


You have done a great job with the board descriptions. Some of them start with a question, and they all are different. They are not repetitive. I can not find a single spelling or grammar. mistake. All of your staff and members are posting with good spelling and grammar. This is amazing. Well done, keep it up.

(Scored 20/20)

Total Score - 93/100


Final Remarks

You have a very active forum which will continue to grow as long as you stay dedicated.
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Strong Points


Amazing activity.
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Things to Improve


Just make the above layout changes.
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Thanks for the review! 🙂

We were considering recruiting Staff, turns out the work load is actually perfect for them, so I decided not to. The Minigames forum has also been open for 2 days, and the Malware Removal forum is actually going to be open soon for actual users, that's why its lacking in activity. Also, the Groups section is for users to recruit for Rune Gear groups, not RuneScape.

Thanks for your review, I appreciate it.
 
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