When another forum raids yours

[Corzhens]

This happened to 3 local forums that had a silent war. The new forum raided the 2 other forums by creating a fictitious account that invited members to the new forum. It was discovered after a big damage was already done, almost a hundred have shifted to the new forum. How do you prevent that?

 

[InderSingh]

Fictitious accounts ? How did they manage to get the members emails ?

 

[KnownSyntax]

I don't think that this can happen easily without someone noticing beforehand, and how did they get not only the emails, but the trust of other members? If those just left without really thinking about it then they were yes apart of your community, but must have found other things that they liked in the new community. Why not try to update things and add new functionality or custom aspects to have them make the switch again with others?

 

[fantanoice]

I haven't experienced it myself. I guess the best thing you can do is remain professional and perhaps contact the staff of the other forum and ask them to cool it off (assuming they're not the ones instigating it).

 

[Hissae2]

I'm not sure I understand. If I'm understanding this correctly, someone created a new forum, and went to other forums to advertise it. That's just advertising, how is this a "raid"?

 

[Gus]

I'm not sure I understand. If I'm understanding this correctly, someone created a new forum, and went to other forums to advertise it. That's just advertising, how is this a "raid"?

PM advertising is frowned upon on almost every forum out there. Those members came in with malicious intent from the get go.

 

[DanielDP]

The best way that you can do is to make your forum more professional than the other forum, prevent the contents of poor quality, filter out inactive members, spam members.... If a person intends to leave the forum then you will not be able to stop them

 

[Page]

Never had this problem before

 

[Shannon Apple]

Hmm, perhaps it was a disgruntled ex staff admin, or something? Those are the only sort of people that would really have the power to sway members. Definitely feels like the kinda drama I'd like to steer clear of. Haha!

I know if someone signed up to our forum and did that, members would report them. It really depends on how much the members like the community. If they don't enjoy being there, they might just leave.

 

[ForumsGroup]

Sounds like a gaming community or "clan". I've had this happen numerous times years ago when I ran gaming communities. Someone would have a bad experience within one of the clans in a gaming community with numerous different clans, and they'd make a thread sharing there side of things. Get everyone worked up, and then go create a new community. People would work up there story to attempt to get people to go with them to another community. Didn't matter if the entire story they provided was true or not, people would follow them.

Only advice I can give to you on this, is to learn from your mistakes. Learn how they did it, and try to fix the leaks in your community.