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  1. SpacewardAsh

    SpacewardAsh Lurking From Space

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    What was the best forum you have ever created?
     
  2. Ashley

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    I'd say my current one is my best one. Sure, I've had a forum last longer than six months before, but I've never had a forum with this good of stats before either. In fact, if memory suits me right, when Marie 1988 closed, we were just barely at the 70 member mark, and that was at the end of it's heyday after only 8 months on the Net. Chatting Time, meanwhile, is only half a year old, and we already have over 100 members! I think I'll let you guys do the math for this one....
     
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    personally I don't think member count is important, it's the post count because it's no good having 100 members where only, lets say less than 10% of them post. So personally I don't think member count is a good way to show off decent statistics.
     
  4. Ashley

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    No, that's probably true. Especially, like you said, you look at how many members we have versus how many are actually posting about. Frankly I'm just thankful for the activity we're recieving at all right now, to be honest. We're getting a good decent amount of posts per day, so that's something to be thankful for.
     
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    Well I only have 2 forums with Cult Classics easily being the best I've had. Doesn't mean I like where its at right now though.
     
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    I only have one forum and i am very happy with it so far
     
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    Yep one is the way to go. I'm probably going to close my 2nd forum because its absoultely dead. Too much work too.
     
  8. Ashley

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    I know how you feel. I've tried running two forums before, and it just didn't cut it for me. I decided right then and there that I'm better off running one. Cuts down on the workload by a lot.
     
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    Not only that the two forums were vast diffrences. So I would get confused at times and post wrong threads in wrong forums.
     
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    Actually, mine were different generes as well. One was a music forum and the other was a religious forum. Mine were just too confusing.
     
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    AdminBB.org definitely is my best, and I am happy with myself for choosing xenforo which is another reason for its uniqueness.
     
  12. Ashley

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    To be honest, I don't even remember any of the older forums you've had, Kaiser, but I would say that this is definitely your best, and I think the revamp helped by a longshot.
     
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    How are you suppose to, you were never on them. And thanks :)
     
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    Ashley Regular Member

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    That's true.
     
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    I'd have tpo say promotion box, but the one i am working on right ow also looks like it's going to do well.
     
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    Wish you the best, if its another promotion forum, gear up because you got a huge competition out there lol.
     
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    I know right, lol.
     
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    I created two forums when I was about 13 with invisionfree. They did okay. I was completely new to running a forum and I was very young but I did well regardless. I now run two forums. The one linked in my signature is the best I've ever created thus far in terms of active members and content. The second one I'm running now is simply just there for when it needs use. It won't kick off until I've got some hundred thousand views for the parody that me and my team are planning to put on youtube.
     
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    You shouldnt keep your forum closed for long it might end up dying.
     
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    PlanetGamers, haven't forgotten about it. I loved that place.

    I would say Cult Classics. But Avatar Forums is about close to being better then it.
     
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