Save Our Snips (First forum)

[Jedi Penguin]

Re: Promoting new (and sadly memberless pretty much) forum

Ok, but I can't be BUYING domains.

I'm wondering, is my dividing banned users into 3 categories (Banned(Group: "I got Banned!"), Spammer(Group:Galactic Nuisance) , and Twi'leek Exploiter(Group: "Pervert Sighted")) a funny idea or will it probably scare people from joining?

I even gave each group a special icon. 🙂

Should all pages have the same style or is it ok to have differing style like I do?

 

[Lone Wolf]

Re: Promoting new (and sadly memberless pretty much) forum

Twi'leek Exploiter(Group: "Pervert Sighted")

If I read that, I'd navigate away from the page.

 

[Jedi Penguin]

Re: Promoting new (and sadly memberless pretty much) forum

What about the other two, "I got Banned!" and "Galactic Nuisance"?

Am deleting the third one right now....<br /><br />-- 01 Apr 2011, 10:12 --<br /><br />It's gone.

Now is the forum ok?

 

[Lone Wolf]

Re: Promoting new (and sadly memberless pretty much) forum

For a forum your size, have Admins, Moderators, Registered Users and a Banned group. You don't have to delete the others, but hide them form the legend.

You have only made 8 posts. I am sure you could make a lot more, 5 posts a day is 35 a week. The more active your forum looks, the more attractive registering is to guests.

 

[Jedi Penguin]

Re: Promoting new (and sadly memberless pretty much) forum

Where would I get them from? I only have myself a sock, and a banned user sock that I banned just for the fun of it.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Re: Promoting new (and sadly memberless pretty much) forum

You make the posts. You can't promote a forum with only 8 posts, it doesn't look attractive.

 

[Jedi Penguin]

Re: Promoting new (and sadly memberless pretty much) forum

Won't it look silly to have me posting over and over?

 

[MXrider13]

Re: Promoting new (and sadly memberless pretty much) forum

Won't it look silly to have me posting over and over?

HERE IS WHAT YOU DO:

Step 1 go to your store, walmart, walgreens, etc and buy a prepaid card.

Step 2 use pre paid car to buy a Domain name from Thumb Tak webhosting

Step 3. Point the domains to your forum, don't know how, thumb tak will teach you.

Step 4. Keep posting on this site and buy web posts.

Step 5 if you can't do any of this, then you shouldn't have made a forum.

 

[Mik.]

Re: Promoting new (and sadly memberless pretty much) forum

Regarding MX's guide if you need help with Step 3 I'll be happy to help if needed. I agree with the last statement. You need to be ready to be a dedicated staff of your site if you really wanted to make one.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Re: Promoting new (and sadly memberless pretty much) forum

Won't it look silly to have me posting over and over?

No, but don't overdo it. Get some good topics to start of discussions and eventually members will join. Plus, to request a package here at FP your forum needs to have a minimum post count (depending on the package), so if you have enough topics for them to join in the discussion with you should be fine.

Also, go to the exchange section here at FP, you can pay FP$ to people to post on your forum or exchange posts with members e.g 5 posts on their forum for 5 on your forum.

 

[Jedi Penguin]

Re: Promoting new (and sadly memberless pretty much) forum

Am creating lots of things.

Just hope I don't like have some bandwith limit I'm not aware of....

Gonna watch the season finale of season 3 by the way.....

 

[Darthmaul]

Re: Promoting new (and sadly memberless pretty much) forum

Me too! Cannot WAIT!

 

[Jedi Penguin]

Re: Promoting new (and sadly memberless pretty much) forum

Also, does anyone know where you can create a FREE wiki that looks exactly like the Wikipedia/Wookiepedia wikis?

 

[Darthmaul]

Re: Promoting new (and sadly memberless pretty much) forum

http://tinyurl.com/3eg7far

 

[Jedi Penguin]

Re: Promoting new (and sadly memberless pretty much) forum

Ok, got one of those. Probably not quite like Wookiepedia/Wikipedia but close enough.

Anyway, I have yet to get them to reply on how to get an account confirmation.

Still working on my forum.<br /><br />-- 05 Apr 2011, 17:05 --<br /><br />Ok...got account confirmation squared away.

Still not getting members. 🙁

 

[shadow_death_]

Re: Promoting new (and sadly memberless pretty much) forum

Odd site.
Unique, but I can see why it has almost no members.
Sorry. 🙁

Advise:
1.Smaller Domain
2.Better Known Ideas
3.Better Theme/Appeal

🙂

 

[Jedi Penguin]

Re: Promoting new (and sadly memberless pretty much) forum

I'm still working with the backgrounds.

I will expand though central idea will never change.

Am trying my best to create lots of groups.

 

[Darthmaul]

Re: Promoting new (and sadly memberless pretty much) forum

Why would you possibly want more groups?

 

[Jedi Penguin]

Re: Promoting new (and sadly memberless pretty much) forum

So what do you have in mind?

Hide some groups for now....?

I CAN'T change the domain name.

I am using MessageForums.com.

I can try and fiddle with themes though that could take a while.

Should all threads look the same?

There is a way to set an image for each forum, but I don't know how to get it from php.

 

[Darthmaul]

Re: Promoting new (and sadly memberless pretty much) forum

okay okay okay, sloooow down. This is what you should delete from groups:
Bounty Hunters, Darth Bane's Sith Order, Galactic Empire, Galactic Nuisance, Knights of the Old Jedi Order, The Yuzzhan Vong Supporters, Togruta Lovers, Twi'lek Lovers
You should have 2 maybe three groups(admins, mods, and banned)