General Managing a General Community

[frm]

Imho, politics ruined general topic forums for me.

I was hesitant to add politics and religion (or other divisive topics) to my general forum until I implemented an "ignore" forum feature so that people could hide it entirely.

It gives people the power to discuss politics, or to have a place completely removed from politics, but can captivate an audience of both as it's essentially like "changing the TV channel" when something they don't like comes on.

 

[ticaga]

I run a forum, and I try and post on Reddit a lot to try and get people to click my name and go to my profile. That and search engine results help drive my traffic to the forum.