Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
Your site is pretty aesthetically pleasing. The theme suits your site wonderfully, and it looks good, too. The banner strikes me as a bit... overly simplistic, but it doesn't look terrible. You might consider having a slightly fancier one designed. However, that's not extremely necessary by any means. One other complaint I have is that the "What's Going On?" table at the bottom is gigantic. I would recommend cutting it down by removing the icon legend since your images are pretty straightforward anyway. Other than that, your theme looks pretty good, and it serves your site well.
On the activity side, things don't look bad at a glance. You've got a good amount of posts and members, and you've also got a decent amount of users connected in the past twenty-four hours. You technically have one empty forum, but it's some kind of contest forum. Anybody would probably see that, but it can still be sort of off-putting if there's a zero post forum glaring at you when you're browsing a forum. That's very minor, though. Your forum looks pretty active at a glance.
Overall, your forum looks really good at first glance.
(Scored 18/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
For the most part, it looks like you're running on a pretty minimalistic layout. I don't see any ways you could cut it down any more. You've also done a good job of organizing your forums to make navigation a fairly easy task. One recommendation I could make would be removing the "Forum Hunt Secret Forum" from your index. I haven't ever been a fan of making new forums for contests. You can always post a global announcement instead of making a whole forum dedicated to a contest. Other than that, it looks like you've done as much as you can to condense and organize your layout, and it's worked well.
(Scored 19/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
It seems that your forum is right around 250 posts per day, and you've got almost eighty posts for each of your 130 members. Your activity is looking very good so far! However, your forum is still fairly new, and you have to make sure that activity level doesn't start to fall. Obviously, keep up whatever you've been doing because it seems to have worked well. In addition to this, you can always use post exchanges if you're having a rather slow day; you want to keep putting new threads into your forum so that new members aren't left with nowhere to post. If you haven't already explored this option, you may wish to add your site to some gaming topsites such as
XtremeTop100.com. If you can get enough votes, you can elevate yourself to a good place on the list, and you may be seen by many gamers. You may also want to sign up to other gaming forums and post around wearing your site's signature banner. If you give helpful responses, then users may be inclined to check out your forum. Obviously, Forum Promotion may also be a resource. You can look around on here for tips on search engine optimization, promotion techniques, et cetera, and you can also request services to advertise your forum. Overall, just make sure you keep finding new ways to advertise.
(Scored 20/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
If I can count, then you've got six staff members. That seems like a sufficient amount of staff members for your forum, and I definitely wouldn't recommend hiring any more. My first complaint is that you've got a banned user with vulgarity in his name in the community team group. You may wish to remove this user from that group; it may reflect badly on the staff to have a banned user on the list (unless there's some sort of joke that I've missed). Your staff members appear to be very active posters. All of your staff members also seem to actively welcome new members to your community. I don't think your forum has any staffing issues at this point in time.
(Scored 20/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
Your forum's index has some minor grammar mistakes, but the main issue lies in your descriptions. Your descriptions are very short, undetailed, and boring. Descriptions can sometimes sell your forum to new users. This is a gaming forum, so you don't necessarily need to be overly professional. Your descriptions should be at least a couple sentences, and they should look like you've put some effort into them. Sell your forum to the first-time visitors.
(Scored 13/20)
Total Score - (Out of 100)
Final Remarks: You've done a really wonderful job on your forum so far.
Strong Points: Your forum's theme is very suitable. Your layout is nearly perfect. The activity on your forum is great so far. You've got a great staff team.
Improvements to Make: Your forum could use some minor changes to the theme, and the descriptions need to be rewritten.
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