Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
Wow! The first thing I notice when I visit your forum is your awesome banner at the top. Scrolling down, the rest of your theme looks really great as well. It's polished, gentle on the eyes, and visually pleasing. I tend to dislike having pictures next to the descriptions of each forum, but in your forum's case, they are neat. Scrolling down more to your stats, I notice that you have a good amount of posts, topics, and members. I also notice that you have received nearly two hundred posts in the past twenty-four hours. You have also had nineteen users active in the past twenty-four hours. That's great! You don't have any empty forums, either. Overall, your forum creates an excellent first impression for prospective members. Great job!
(Scored 20/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
Your layout appears to be well organized, but your index is very long. I see many ways you could condense your index to make navigating your site even easier. In your "Paranormal Phenomenon" category, most of the forums have similar purposes. You may be able to merge some of those forums or make certain forums sub-forums (for example, you could make "Mysteries and Conspiracies" a sub-forum under "Incredible Facts and World News" and make "Enigmas, Metaphysics, and Psychology" a sub-forum under "Natural World and Cryptozoology"). Not only would that condense your index, but it would also make your forum appear more active by combining the post counts of those forums. In your "Technology and Research" category, I would recommend making "Technology" and "Space" sub-forums under "Science." You may also consider moving your "Gallery" forum to the "Off Discussion" category, making "Ambigrams" and "ASCII" sub-forums under "Gallery," and deleting the "Art" category. You may also consider making "Game Design" a sub-forum under "Gaming." These are just a few possibilities. I understand that you may not be able to do all of these (I don't completely understand what works for your forum), but just play around with the layout and see if you can condense your index. Your users may respond positively!
(Scored 14/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
According to my calculations, your forum receives an average of sixty posts per day. That's not bad, but there is still room for improvement. Post exchanges are virtually worthless to you at this point, as your forum is about two and a half years old. Your forum has over 4600 topics and five hundred members. Those statistics aren't bad either, but there is room for improvement. It would appear that your activity has been improving lately; your activity over the last twenty-four hours shows that you have beaten your daily average in all three areas. Make sure that you are taking advantage of the advertising services offered on Forum Promotion and other promotion forums such as banner ads, text ads, and so on. You may also find it helpful to send a mass e-mail out to your hundreds of members. In two and a half years, some people may have forgotten about your forum.
(Scored 14/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
Currently, you appear to employ four people. Three of your four staff members appear to be outstandingly active. However, one staff member only has sixty-two posts since early June, which averages out to less than one post per day. Having active staff members is important, as it makes a forum appear cared for. Inside the forum, your staff members appear to sometimes use chatspeak and act unprofessionally, but they also appear to contribute positively to discussions. Overall, the only big problem with your staff is that you have one staff member who appears to be inactive. I would encourage that staff member to participate in discussions on the forum more.
(Scored 14/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
Looking over your forum descriptions quickly, I spotted about four or five grammar mistakes, two of which were forgetting to end sentences with periods (in the descriptions of "Game Design" and "Numbers and Codes"). The other two or three were forgetting a period at the end of the abbreviation "etc." Other than that, your forum descriptions appear to have nearly flawless grammar. Good job.
(Scored 19/20)
Score - 83 (Out of 100)
Closing remarks: Despite a few drawbacks, you appear to have a decent forum that is continuing to improve daily!
Forum's strong points: Your forum's strongest point is probably your theme!
Improvements to make: Your activity probably needs the most work.
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