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[Ascent]

Maybe because he's passionate about the topic?

Perhaps. Problem is, the competition is way too much for any new competitor to come in (I'm including your site in this) and expect success. You're gonna have to do a hell of a lot of promoting to get anywhere.

Take AdminAddict.net. Full of really great admins, and run by a great admin. However due to competition it never got as big as it should have done.

Don't see how my reply implied that I didn't know that. Also, do realize that not everybody is in it to become the next biggest forum. There are many that prefer smaller communities, and achieving a small established community is easier than achieving a large established community.

Regardless, hope you realize the same principle applies to your Xbox forum.

 

[Jonathan]

Regardless, hope you realize the same principle applies to your Xbox forum.

Right, to some extent. The only difference is that there are no successful Xbox 'communities' out there, just forums. And that's where we come in. We always brand ourselves as a 'community.'

 

[Ascent]

Regardless, hope you realize the same principle applies to your Xbox forum.

Right, to some extent. The only difference is that there are no successful Xbox 'communities' out there, just forums. And that's where we come in. We always brand ourselves as a 'community.'

Explain to me how a forum isn't a community?

 

[Jonathan]

A forum is just a discussion website. It's not necessarily a community. Lots of the bigger forums don't really have much of a community spirit going on. ZoneXbox's goal is to keep the staff close to the users and keep the sense of community at all times.

I'm not saying it's not going to be difficult to start another Xbox forum, but I have a lot of experience and my co-staff also have a lot of experience at running large forums. (my co-admin is the founder of a 800,000 post forum, and my head moderator is the founder of a 200,000 post-ish forum).

 

[Daria]

Maybe because he's passionate about the topic?

Perhaps. Problem is, the competition is way too much for any new competitor to come in (I'm including your site in this) and expect success. You're gonna have to do a hell of a lot of promoting to get anywhere.

Take AdminAddict.net. Full of really great admins, and run by a great admin. However due to competition it never got as big as it should have done.

And this is why I never post in threads with users complaining about promotion and webmaster forums.

 

[xCuCu]

Come down and join us! We can use your help 😀

 

[Nebulous]

Seeing as it was originally a promotion forum, there should still be a place to promote there.

 

[xCuCu]

Seeing as it was originally a promotion forum, there should still be a place to promote there.

I am currently waiting for more members to join up before adding a promotion forum, because if I added it right now it would not be used at all.

 

[Nebulous]

Well add one and we'll see if it is used or not. 😛