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Re: Better to hide forum sections

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Nov 24th, 2006

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Originally Posted by cscgal

I am a lurker before I decide whether a forum is worth my time to register. There are just so many forums out there nowadays, and it's so easy to set up a forum. It's what you do once it's set up that makes it special, and that's what we prospective members want to see. Not that you know how to run an install.php file.

Exactly. Most people setup a forum that is about everything and expect to be as big as OffTopic.com is without even trying. People do not post just to post. They want to feel part of the community and want to have others to talk to. Throwing up a forum without pushing any kind of activity will never get the forum active. it's a lot of hard work starting a forum up and getting it active.

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Re: Better to hide forum sections

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Nov 24th, 2006

> I just think it must just look silly after abit having topics with no replies to them.
That's why it's up to you to seed your forum with interesting topics and questions that people feel an urge to reply to.

> Also how come TechTalk did not take off? And why did you quit with that site, instead of continuing?
Because I wanted to create other things other than forums and the idea was for DaniWeb to be my umbrella company, with TechTalkForums being one of the properties.

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