Advice Is it a good idea to request posting packages?

[Chadook]

Is it a good idea to request posting packages to an offline board being built?

 

[Arantor]

If it's offline how will they post to it?

 

[Al]

If it's offline how will they post to it?

By granting the posters admin access.

 

[Cpvr]

Yes, it’s a good idea to request a posting package while your board is offline and being built.



That way, when you’re ready to open, your forum will be seeded with content rather than being empty. This allows you to hit the ground running, with more content available for new members, as opposed to having limited content when you first launch.


A posting package is designed to help you by providing the resources you need to kickstart your forum.

 

[InMyOpinion]

I completely agree with you @Cpvr, it's a great tool for when you are just starting out and you want your forum to get more threads and posts that aren't made from the staff themselves.

I don't think you should always be relying on the posting packages but when you're starting or even sometimes when the forum is slow it is a good idea.

 

[Bawse]

I'd wait until your ready to launch the forum. It'll help you get new members when your paid posters are regularly creating new content.

 

[Arantor]

Yes, it’s a good idea to request a posting package while your board is offline and being built.



That way, when you’re ready to open, your forum will be seeded with content rather than being empty. This allows you to hit the ground running, with more content available for new members, as opposed to having limited content when you first launch.


A posting package is designed to help you by providing the resources you need to kickstart your forum.

You and I have different definitions of offline, it seems… to me, offline is “not connected to the internet”.

 

[Al]

You and I have different definitions of offline, it seems… to me, offline is “not connected to the internet”.

Its contextual. With most forums, offline means 'closed'.

 

[Arantor]

Its contextual. With most forums, offline means 'closed'.

It doesn’t mean that outside of the forum world, though. It doesn’t even mean that across all of the forum world, it only means that in the specific platforms that call it that.

E.g. SMF calls it maintenance mode rather than offline (and has for the last 20 years)

 

[Al]

It doesn’t mean that outside of the forum world, though.

Aye, well this is a board about forums. Anyway, it's a moot point and simple semantics. Offline, closed, maintenance, whatever, the inference was obvious.