What captcha service do you use to prevent bots from joining your forum?
I've been using Google Cloudflare, but I noticed lately some spam accounts have been getting through, and I removed them.
My forum is bigger than money. I'd turn down big offers for my poker forum if I receive any in the future. I want to see my goals through, and always own my community. I also have a huge vision, and I know there is a ton of potential in my community.
How about you? Would you ever sell your forum?
I started my forum as a dream project. I would never sell even if I received a big offer. I sold a Facebook group in the past in the same niche as my forum, and I learned the hard way how easy it is for a community to turn on you. I had to grind for my community back, and prove my doubters...
I try to make sure I always have backups. It's extremely important, especially if your site has a ton of content/members.
I have lost my site in the past due to not taking regular backups, I'll never let it happen again.
Has it happened to you?
Have you ever had any members warn you about members apart of your staff being bad for your forum? What did you do?
I just removed a moderator on my forum for having a history with one of my partners as a moderator, and he or one of their old moderators scammed him out of the money during a...
My forums: https://poker.community and https://pokerwebmaster.com
I'll exchange with most forums. I'm not looking for daily exchanges. Weekly or one time post exchanges only. I'll consider trading 1:1 posts consistently if you bring my forums good posts.
When starting a new forum, does your past connections from admin forums help you grow your forum?
I started a poker affiliate forum a few days ago, and we already got 5 members who I either know from my poker forum, or other admins/forum owners. One of my new members recently started a new...
What's your thoughts on unique/human generated content vs AI content?
I'm always going to prefer unique content that's written by humans, and I strongly believe it's better for SEO.
I decided to launch a second poker forum at: https://pokerwebmaster.com
Please join and become our first members! PokerWebmaster will be a poker affiliate forum. I hope to turn my new forum into a great resource for poker affiliates, and webmasters!
My forum has a lot of members that don't actively participate in discussions. They mostly come for our daily freeroll, and to check the leaderboard in our daily buy-ins hosted on a partnered poker site.
Any ideas how to get my members to you get members to engage more?
What's the biggest forum that you started with no members? Did you merge with other forums to grow faster(increase members & posts)?
My current poker forum is my largest forum. I just registered pokerwebmaster.com and pokerwebmasterforum.com. I plan to start a poker webmaster forum, and try to...