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Ways to make these forums more active
Topic Started: 3 May 2009, 10:27 (829 Views)
Gorgor96

Ways to make these forums more active

Here are some ways that you can get the forums more active and make people want to use these forums. I've had trouble with my forums with having alot of inactive members, but using the methods I will describe below, I was able to get them back and foruming!

1. More BBCode (APPROVED)
Ok, BBCode can do alot in posts like change the color, quote, link, post pictures, ect. I have browsed the official Zetaboard help forum and found alot of add-ons to the BBCode that include glowing text, sliding text (marquee) and more! I will be more than happy to provide you with this. If you want, I can pm you the code and you can just install it in.

2. Forum scavanger hunts with rewards
Scavanger hunts are a great way to create fun on a forum. You can make a thread in a forum saying that there is a certain thing hidden somewhere on these forums and show what it is on that thread. Then go and place it somewhere on these forums. It can be on a thread, in a post, on the calander, or anywhere! This will make everyone search through the forums to find it. But for people to want to find it, there has to be a reward. Some possible rewards are a temporary promotion to a moderator position, place them in their own group in which they can do more than they can in their current group, and some more that you can think of.
Edited by Gorgor96, 6 May 2009, 23:58.
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Theboy1001
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Thanks for the ideas, Gorgor. :)

. More BBCode

I#d be happy to add more BBCode. Send me the codes and I'l add them to the board.

2. Forum scavenger hunts

For this to work, we need a user base to begin with. If we had many inactive users, I would do this. However, our problem is a lack of members; we need to find more people who will join the site.
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Gorgor96

Sent.
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Theboy1001
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Thanks for those. :)
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Gorgor96

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Theboy1001
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Very good. :)
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Rax 876
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Theboy's previous methods of encouraging people were: blackmail, torture and kidnap...That's how he got the rest of us to join...They worked quite well :P
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Theboy1001
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Stephen
4 May 2009, 19:35
Theboy's previous methods of encouraging people were: blackmail, torture and kidnap...That's how he got the rest of us to join...They worked quite well :P
Lol, Stephen. I think we're looking for some more legal methods.


Note to any gullible people: Stephen's last post was a joke, please do not arrest me. :P
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Rax 876
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Yeah i was just kidding...Don't arrest him...Or he'll come back and get me when he gets out of jail. :P
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Theboy1001
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Yes. Yes I will. :)

Anyway, and more real suggestions?
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Gorgor96

LOL :P

I don't have any more ideas yet, but I'm thinking and I'm also browsing the Zetaboard support forum for cool codes.

PS: This is the forum's 1500th post! W00T
Edited by Gorgor96, 6 May 2009, 23:58.
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Theboy1001
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If anyone has any sites they think we could benefit from advertising on, please tell me. :)
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Rax 876
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Hmm well i try to put this website on all the forums i'm active in (1 woo) maybe we should try to start offering services like guides or something ?
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Theboy1001
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Yes, that's what I want to eventually achieve. However, that does require guides to be written...
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Rax 876
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Lets "borrow" those guides already written on the old site ? I'm sure your fishing one took a long time...And i know my mining one took me the best part of 10 mins.
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Gorgor96

What's the old site's URL? I'm curious to see what it was :P
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Theboy1001
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Yes, I was thinking of putting those in Stephen, I was just hoping that we could get some more written before we put them up. Having all of 2 guide in our guides section doesn't look good. :P So get writing! ;)

Gorgor, the old URL was http://killer5777.proboards.com/index - it was a lot more active than this is. Before you suggest it, I have tried getting old people back many times before.
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Rax 876
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I think you mean the old URL was this: http://killer5777.proboards.com/index.cgi and i'm sure the other guys who put on guides won't mind us...Borrowing theirs until someone else replaces them :)
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Theboy1001
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Oh yes, thanks Stephen. Do you know exactly how many guides we have?
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Rax 876
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We have 5 which are:

Rax's mining guide
Theboy1001's whats, whys and Huh???s of fishing
Neutral a1r's guide to 99 hunter
Rangerguy's 99 agility guide
Livertommy's guide to runecrafting
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