Engagement Do your connections from admin forums help you when starting a new forum?

[Bawse]

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 crypto poker site, and they found the site from a discussion on my forums.

 

[CTS]

I remember my first forum. No knowledge, no connections, no nuttin'.

Since then, and several forums later, I have learned to appreciate all past/current/future admins that I meet from forums as they are often a willing source of great information or idea's for your forum as well as blunt honest feedback that you can use. That's what I see here at Administrata. People with the same goals helping in a community fashion. I wouldn't even try to do it again like I did back in my beginnings.

 

[Rey619]

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 crypto poker site, and they found the site from a discussion on my forums.

if you have a loyal fan base it can work. i have about 6-10 ready when i started it again.

 

[Bawse]

if you have a loyal fan base it can work. i have about 6-10 ready when i started it again.

Loyal fan bases are the best fans. I think my following is pretty loyal. I have a few super loyal followers from my niche.

 

[Arantor]

Depends on your niche. But in general, less likely in my head.

Remember, the average person at an admin forum is another forum admin or adjacent. Which means unless there’s a niche overlap, post exchange or similar, or someone just going round posting the same messages everywhere (which, tbf, can easily look like spam for clout), your forum’s audience aren’t there.

There is a slightly different take in the roleplay world in that they still have directories and top sites and stuff and so there’s still a healthy amount of cross-pollination.

 

[Rey619]

Loyal fan bases are the best fans. I think my following is pretty loyal. I have a few super loyal followers from my niche.

That is the best ones to have so yeah i am grateful and it grew from there.

 

[Bawse]

Depends on your niche. But in general, less likely in my head.

Remember, the average person at an admin forum is another forum admin or adjacent. Which means unless there’s a niche overlap, post exchange or similar, or someone just going round posting the same messages everywhere (which, tbf, can easily look like spam for clout), your forum’s audience aren’t there.

There is a slightly different take in the roleplay world in that they still have directories and top sites and stuff and so there’s still a healthy amount of cross-pollination.

I don't really think niche matters. If you own a forum in general it can benefit your forum for backlinks(signatures and directories), and you can also do post exchanges, or purchase posting packages on many admin forums, including this one. Post exchanges and paid posts DO help a forum grow, and gain quality content.

 

[Cpvr]

I remember my first forum. No knowledge, no connections, no nuttin'.

Since then, and several forums later, I have learned to appreciate all past/current/future admins that I meet from forums as they are often a willing source of great information or idea's for your forum as well as blunt honest feedback that you can use. That's what I see here at Administrata. People with the same goals helping in a community fashion. I wouldn't even try to do it again like I did back in my beginnings.

Same here. When I first started one of forums in 2005, I wasn’t aware of any admin or promotion forums at the time.



Instead, I relied on my connections from the online games I played to build up my forum. Eventually, I discovered admin and promotion forums a few months later. I’m still active in these games and use them as a promotional tool.



The connections and relationships I formed while playing games helped me get started, but admin and promotion forums played a much larger role in my journey as a community owner.