New forum? Need some activity?

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Just a little trick I found on a some forum I wanted to share with members here.

If you own a forum and want some activity, you can do the trick I'm about to mention. Remember you need a few active member for this to work and obviously active marketing.

All you have to do is create a thread with title "Last post gets SOMETHING" that something can be $100 some good tag or anything that's valuable for your audience. Just create the thread and see people replying to thread 24/7!

If you've been actively promoting the forum it's unlikely you get to pay the winner because people will always keep replying. If if for some reason you see nobody has replies to thread in a while, pay the winner and use his testimony to create new thread and get even more activity going!

I hope it helps!

Any questions? I'm here!
#activity #forum
  • Profile picture of the author dburk
    Encouraging members to bump threads instead of participate in discussions seems like a fail.

    Instead of "last post", shouldn't you make that "best post"? Otherwise you are going to get a massive amount of low quality thread bumps, and I would imagine that would do a lot of long term harm to your forum. Am I wrong about that?
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  • Profile picture of the author Regional Warrior
    Just what you need a spam thread not the best thinking but thanks for the thought
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  • Profile picture of the author hickman120
    Terrible idea for a new forum really. New users will login to find the only active thread is an off-topic thread clearly put there because there isn't much discussion.
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    • Profile picture of the author blue555
      Originally Posted by hickman120 View Post

      Terrible idea for a new forum really. New users will login to find the only active thread is an off-topic thread clearly put there because there isn't much discussion.
      Obvious works needed you cannot have empty forum with this thread only that's common sense I thought
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  • Profile picture of the author Robscom
    bump.......
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  • Profile picture of the author George Schwab
    one upvote from me....

    however of course you pick 3 guys from them that are the most articulate or expressive,
    make them mods, and let them do quality posts, and the whole thing gets a sparkle of magic
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  • Profile picture of the author neshaword
    Hey Blue this is true, especially for the newbie and struggling forums. I hope to run a movie review something forum. And, I'm actually thinking about more than one competition or a reward. For instance, I'm thinking about rewards for the most commented or popular post. Something like that. To tell you truth, I'm not sure what's the situation here, but you just gave me an idea to suggest a competition or something similar on WF. OK, maybe competition isn't the right term, but how about some rewards for a change? I would like to get a WF T-Shirt for instance. Why not? You know what, I'm gonna go to Suggestions section to do something about it right now. Thx. N
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    • Profile picture of the author blue555
      Originally Posted by neshaword View Post

      Hey Blue this is true, especially for the newbie and struggling forums. I hope to run a movie review something forum. And, I'm actually thinking about more than one competition or a reward. For instance, I'm thinking about rewards for the most commented or popular post. Something like that. To tell you truth, I'm not sure what's the situation here, but you just gave me an idea to suggest a competition or something similar on WF. OK, maybe competition isn't the right term, but how about some rewards for a change? I would like to get a WF T-Shirt for instance. Why not? You know what, I'm gonna go to Suggestions section to do something about it right now. Thx. N
      Hey man glad I could help
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      • Profile picture of the author neshaword
        Originally Posted by blue555 View Post

        Hey man glad I could help
        Gonna ask an extra WF T-shirt for you too, lol.

        Cheers!
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