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David
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Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 9:32 pm Post subject:

admin wrote:

I keep making this same point to people, unless you have a large circle of people you can get involved instantly a forum:

yetanotherchatroom.myfreeforum.org

is going to be very hard to get off the ground.

You're probably right. One method I've heard that people with forums that are very broad is they e-mail hundreds of their frineds telling to join their forum. I think it usually works, but I don't see the point in doing it. It takes away the challenge of trying to get people to join your forum at will and not under pressure.

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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 12:16 am Post subject:

admin wrote:

David wrote:

It's a lot easier to attract members if your site focuses on one topic, such as basketball, or business card collecting. :P I've noticed that Many forums on here are too broad, and they should specialize on one or two things, in my opinuin.

YetAnotherChatRoom doesn't seem to exist. Did it get deleted or something?

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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 12:19 am Post subject:

If you mean chattyspammypeople then yes they have gone to forum hell _________________ http://www.saynoto0870.com/ XXVIII/ I/ MCMLXXI

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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 12:24 am Post subject:

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If you mean chattyspammypeople then yes they have gone to forum hell

No, not chattypeopleforum, which got deleted, but notanotherchatforum, or something like that,

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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 10:41 pm Post subject:

i have the my forum address in my signature, its unobtrusive but works very well. out of politeness ask the site owner if you can do that though _________________ There's only one way of life and that's your own

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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 11:31 am Post subject:

what has happened to polmki's site? its been down for the past couple of days _________________ http://oasisfanatics.myfastforum.org

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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 11:52 am Post subject:

St0rm[TitE] wrote:

what has happened to polmki's site? its been down for the past couple of days

I have no idea it was a good looking forum as well maybe he tryed 1 footer to many

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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 11:58 am Post subject:

lol yeah, he used about every available feature possible on his site. i thought it was very good and 'took' a few ideas from it and used them on my site _________________ http://oasisfanatics.myfastforum.org

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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:08 pm Post subject:

St0rm[TitE] wrote:

lol

yeah, he used about every available feature possible on his site. i thought it was very good and 'took' a few ideas from it and used them on my site Wink

Indeed he did but maybe too many
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:10 pm Post subject:

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St0rm[TitE] wrote:

lol

yeah, he used about every available feature possible on his site. i thought it was very good and 'took' a few ideas from it and used them on my site Wink

Indeed he did but maybe too many

But if he was down for technical reasons he would know he could get me to fix it. What was the address?
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:14 pm Post subject:

elforum.myfreeforum.org is the link Admin _________________ http://www.saynoto0870.com/ XXVIII/ I/ MCMLXXI

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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:15 pm Post subject:

http://elforum.myfreeforum.org/ _________________ http://www.saynoto0870.com/ XXVIII/ I/ MCMLXXI

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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:18 pm Post subject:

So he has simply taken it offline No idea of course on the reasoning here, but we have a few admins who take forums offline when they are away. Which is a pretty self defeating way of trying to build a forum _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums forum.myfreeforum.org

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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:20 pm Post subject:

maybe he's 'work in progress'? but then, surely something would still show up _________________ http://oasisfanatics.myfastforum.org

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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:21 pm Post subject:

St0rm[TitE] wrote:

maybe he's 'work in progress'? but then, surely something would still show up

Unavailable means he can't see the changes!
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