How do you make your forum feel like a community?

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December 3, 2013, 1:39 pm

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How do you make your forum feel like a community?

It's easy to put up a forum and get people to post. But how do you get the forum to feel like a community so that everyone pulls together and helps each other or feels emotionall invested in the welfare of the site?

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Avery

Give each forum member time needed to become a part of the community. Don't rush people into feeling at home. Slowly nurture the members and over time they will feel as if they belong.

11 years ago

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Keith

Keep posting discussions on your forum daily until other members join in and post too. Don't abandon your forum, make it feel like a home for those who come by daily.

11 years ago

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Corzhens

This is one trick that I learned years ago from a local forum. In the introduction of a newbie, they require a short bio data regarding career and education or even family. There is this member called “spotter” who is disguised as a mere member. When replying to a post of a member, the spotter would mention something that refers to the member like addressing him as Attorney if his introduction says he is a lawyer. With that simple gesture, rapport is established and later on that member will be called Attorney not only by the spotter but by other members as well.

7 years ago

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How do you make your forum feel like a community?

How do you make your forum feel like a community?

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