Slow & Steady Wins The Race?

Would you rather join a forum where there was a steady amount of posts being made a day for example 10-50 posts, or one where there is hundreds of posts made a day, and why?

 

It actually depends with me. Advertisement forums I would probably prefer to be active, especially if I intend to promote my own forum, while other forums that don't offer services, I don't mind being slow or steady: e.g. general chat forums. I didn't say that on my own forum, but I didn't put much thought in my answer either lol. But that's my take on it.

 

It depends on the type of posts. If there are 10 threads with 100s of posts, I'd like that. But if there are 50 threads with 2 or 3 posts each, I wouldn't.

 

It all depends on what type of community it is - surely, the one with the best content usually comes on top.

 

I think if there isnt more than around 40 posts a day on any forum there is not a point in joining

 

why not? All forums have to start somewhere you know

 

Yeh but the ones that are slow after a month of been open then you know it will more likely fail

 

That's not always the case, though, and this is why that no matter what, you need to constantly keep promoting and adding content and things like that. Some forums are lucky and get really successful after only one month of being on the Net, while others take more time to grow.

 

I think I would prefer an active board. No one would post on a inactive board. thats how I put things straight!

 

Same here. I'm more active on communities that are active.

 

I personally don't like huge forums like Gaia or something similar. But it doesn't mean I like a dead forum. So I would have to say a steady pace is best for me personally.

 

I think a nice "in-between" site is what I prefer too. I don't like it where it's really active to the point where you can't keep up with what's going on, but I hate sitting at my computer looking at a dead forum as well. So I guess an in-between size forum is good enough for me.

 

Plus a huge forum takes away from it being closely knit anymore. Imagine having to remember a moderators name who you won't see because he's too busy helping others. It can be a hassle. That's why a active forum with a close knit community is what I prefer.

 

Yeah, I know what you're getting at with that. There was an advertisement forum I used to frequent till just recently. It suddenly got to be way too many members, too many posts being repeated over and over and over, and while it was easy to decipher somewhat who was who, as some older members were still posting from the year I joined up, it just got to be too much after a while, because they were always looking for staffing positions, and it was just hard to keep track of who was who and who was doing what, so I finally thought, "forget it!" and started looking for smaller, yet still established, forums to congregate at.

 

10-50 or higher, but if its a forum like digitalpoint then no, because I cant keep up.

 

I used to be part of a certain forum where there were about 10,000 if not more new posts made everyday. Most of it were teenagers in the spam board. I tried to navigate through the useless trash and into content worth reading, it was difficult. I made some great friends on that site and those very friends are now helping me build my site but it took much longer than it would have to make friends than say, a site that gets 50-500 posts a day. I don't like very large communities (even though that is what I'm trying to build), especially if most of their content is useless. I like a close knit community where I know the staff and I can get to know people on a personal level. Therefore, I would say that I join in-between communities that get 50-500 posts per day.

 

As long as you have a family atmosphere(community), I don't see a problem with it becoming more active. Of course, your members will always be tight - in the sense, everyone feels at home.

 

Honestly it depends on many things. The staff, the site itself, the community, the owner. Not just post count. It doesnt matter if you're getting thousands of posts per day, if the community is all trolls, I'm not going to stick around. Same if the community isn't newbie friendly (as most big communties are nowadays) then I'll likely only visit or sign up if I have a question, then leave.