Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
Your theme looks good. The banner looks pretty nice, and the theme itself has a pretty decent color scheme. I don't have any complaints about your theme.
However, your forum looks very inactive at a glance. You have a very small amount of posts, and you have several empty forums. You might consider doing some post exchanges to make your forum appear more active.
Overall, my first impression was quite neutral.
(Scored 12/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
Your forum's index is very long. It's also very unbalanced, and it could be organized better. Firstly, I think you should hide the trash bin forum. I have no idea why you have forums related to producing music on your gaming forum. I also don't think that you need so many forums dedicated to computers on your gaming forum. Maybe one forum for discussion of all subjects related to computers would suffice. I think that you should make "News and Articles" a sub-forum under "Discussions." I think that your top category should have only the news, feedback, and introduction forums. You should create a new category for all your general forums ("Off-Topic," your new single forum for computer-related discussions, the advertising section, et cetera). I think that your "Steam Group" forum would fit better under either your Gameservers and Voiceservers category or your Gaming and Development category. If you make these changes, I think that it will make your layout far more efficient and organized.
(Scored 8/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
According to my calculations, your forum is very inactive. First of all, I notice that MANY of your forums are empty. Your staff members NEED to create more content so that users actually have topics to discuss. After you create content, then you may want to do some post exchanges for a little boost in activity. After that, you can advertise on other gaming forums and on gaming topsites such as XtremeTop100. FP has some guides on how to promote and optimize your forum for better performance on search engines.
(Scored 2/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
As far as I can tell, your forum has five staff members; three of these members run the forum, one is a developer, and one is a server admin. You're very close to being overstaffed; whatever you do, don't hire any more staff members unless your forum becomes a lot more active. Although you have a lot of staff members, none of them are very active at all. A lot of your introduction topics only have two replies. That means that not even all three of your staff members who actually run the forum are welcoming new members, let alone the other two. Your staff needs to do a much better job of being active and welcoming new members. They also need to do a better job of creating content so that users will have things to discuss.
(Scored 4/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
All of your descriptions are very short. You need to rewrite them. Make them longer. Make sure they thoroughly describe your forums, and make sure that they make a good impression on members. Every description should be at least one or two meaty sentences. Your descriptions also have typos and grammar errors. Some of them have errors in capitalization, and some of them don't have full stops.
(Scored 10/20)
Total Score - 36 (Out of 100)
Final Remarks:
Strong Points: Your forum has a great theme.
Improvements to Make: Your forum needs improvement in its activity, staff, descriptions, and layout.
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