Sorry there if im confusing, thats what happens to me when I try and talk sense - I fail miserably hahha.

Some do only some post once a month.

As a newcomer to digital technology and the social web, I have to confess to doing more than my share of lurking. What lured me out of hiding to sign up for Daniweb was the combination of friendly atmosphere and knowledgeable postings. The willingness of your extremely skilled community to cheerfully help the most rank beginner is what gave me the confidence to join. I am not in a position to offer advice on much yet, but when the day arrives, I hope to be of some help.

Thank you very much for your feedback! It's much appreciated and I welcome you to DaniWeb.

I visited conqueryourniche.com the other day, and they have this great idea to make people want to post! It works like this: everytime you post, you get points. For every five points or so, they'll display your ad for free! But there're too many members there that the only chance your ad is ever going to be read at all is if you're a platinum member.

Nice concept, though!

If there are so many members that nobody will see the ads then its not such a great idea afterall.

Was too when they first started it! :mad:

I think your website forum is as good as it gets and you shouldn't worry yourself with this question. Patience and time are all you need and with the community you have now everyone is like a tree that will drop seed.

The most way to attract other people to joining your site is to explain to them how and why they should join. Explain to them how much it could either help them at least in some way. Just like that facebook.com, it gotten so popular because people influence other people, because it is the excitment of getting more communication with other people.
This site should be more out there and it should be more "spread the word out" that way each one of the members can influence their other friends to join-- thus, since this site is interesting, the most argetted audience is to reache out to computer interest members the most! just a suggestion!

From what I've seen, generally the easiest approaches are usually the best. Simple threads like the Forum lurkers, introduce yourself ... !! along with occassional special events or games seem to do the job pretty well, in the short run, at least. Keeping the lurkers from just fading into the background again is almost entirely up to just keeping the conversation going.

I made a "step out of the shadows" sticky thread in my most viewed/used forum - asking lurkers to..well, step out of the shadows. Also, I use a plugin to hide links in posts, so if lurkers want to be able to confirm what a post says, or they're dying to look at a link to an image somewhere, they'll sign up.
I offer some other stuff too, like full search ability, image-hosting, stuff like that.

I'd guestimate about only 10% of my forum members actually participate meaningfully on the site though - most just continue as lurkers, with membership priviledges.. LoL

I signed up here for two reasons though. I've used a bit of code that cscgal was good enough to share so I wanted to:
1) Ask for a little help on it, and
2) Say thanks for sharing.