Forum Administrators

Do you run your forum with your members in mind, or do you run your forum with just you in mind? Have you ever stopped to think why your members are leaving your forum in droves?

Members like to feel that they’re part of the forum, they like to have a say in the way a forum is shaped for the future.

Just because you don’t like something doesn’t automatically mean that your members don’t like it.

This I feel is why many forums fail in the first 3 months of being created, the admin adds bells and whistles and content that they like without a second thought for what their members might like.

If you want the bells and whistles, then enhance the admin control panel to make your life easier.

Put out polls and suggestions to your members to gauge whether they are going to like a feature you’re considering implementing.

Sometimes your members may want something that could be detrimental to the running of the forum. Don’t bullshit them, give them the truth behind why you cannot implement a feature that they want. Or come to some kind of compromise.

Don’t come out with the attitude “it’s my frigging forum, I can do what the hell I like.” Sure you can, don’t expect your members to come back.

Have your members in mind in whatever you do or plan to do to your forum. That way members should stay loyal to you, through the highs and lows.