On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:18:56 -0600, "Pszemol"
wrote:


Are you interested in looks or the content when you join the forum ?

Both, the content is first and formost, but looks and ease of use are
important too.


How do you plan on supporting the cost of keeping it in operation
when your forum starts to grow ?

I think i'm a long way off from that, but the server i use i pretty
much have unlimited resourses.

Sure, but the power of the forum is to have many people
who can help you when you need help or just to share
opinions in a larger crowd. Creating new forum instead of
joining an existing one could be reasonable if you are missing
something important in existing forums... and you can offer
this new, unique feature missing in other forums on your forum.
Creating just another forum being just the same like dozen
others is just devoid of the purpose, but it is just me :-)

I understand that, but even the biggest forum started with one member
as far a unique goes, that is why a category was added to ask for
ideas and request of addons.
Just by your reply here alone I can tell that http://coszam.net/forum
wouldn't mind having you along for the ride.

An active participation in a single forum takes time and effort.
The time is the only thing we have and the only thing we cannot
buy back when we loose it. All we do in our lives is to use our time
effectivelly and to sell our time to others with the biggest efficiency.
If I spend my time writing my opinion or helping someone in
his problems I would prefer doing it on the forum with thousands
of members who could benefit from my time than on the forum
with two members... The same thing applies to asking for help...
If I spend time asking for help on some forums, I am interested
in writing to a forum with the most chance of getting help...

I agree 100%, but the one other large forum that i am a member with
has gotten so big that i see MOD's banning people for the smallest
infractions and they give off an attitude that they are god any don't
care what you think. they lock threads for no reason, and change
members post to suit them, this has never happen to me but i seen it
countless times, they even asked a expert who had his own board within
the forum to leave after a member had a disagreement with him without
the MOD's finding out what really happen, it made alot of members
very upset that the expert was made to leave.
we do jump from forum to forum to get the best of each forum and want
to incorpersate that into ours over time.

you also ask on a follow up post why i had 2500 post, that is not me,
i am Comatose on the forum, Coszam is a close friend that i'm helping
with the forum. i am in charge of making people aware of the site and
getting people to join.