froggyboy604
Seasoned Veteran
Would starting a forum network like how AOL (Engadget, Joystiq, Huffington post, TechCrunch) and Gawker (Kotaku, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Consumerist) be a good idea, or a hard idea to get started?
I think it would be very difficult since you need to find (link exchange) or run a few highly successful forums to link to each other to get a lot of refferal traffic and members from each forum, and you probably need to have the member names and passwords somehow linked together with multiple forums, so users from one forum can use the same username on multiple forums without making another accounts like how Gawker lets people with the same people comment on Gawker, Kotaku, Gizmodo, and Lifehacker with the same account. Plus, setting up rules might be more difficult since one forums rules might be different forum.
Also, forums seem more competitive at times like people who are members on one forum might dislike members on another forum, or the owner of the other forum, but blogs seem to have less of this competitiveness problems.
I think it would be very difficult since you need to find (link exchange) or run a few highly successful forums to link to each other to get a lot of refferal traffic and members from each forum, and you probably need to have the member names and passwords somehow linked together with multiple forums, so users from one forum can use the same username on multiple forums without making another accounts like how Gawker lets people with the same people comment on Gawker, Kotaku, Gizmodo, and Lifehacker with the same account. Plus, setting up rules might be more difficult since one forums rules might be different forum.
Also, forums seem more competitive at times like people who are members on one forum might dislike members on another forum, or the owner of the other forum, but blogs seem to have less of this competitiveness problems.
