It's only a car forum but it's more the way you run it. You make the right kind of sections, the people have a common interest, you don't let things boil over too much. I see too many forums where slanging matches go on for pages and pages with no one stopping it. Of course to some extent that relies on one of the users reporting it because you can't possibly read every post every day but nipping things in the bud with a 'that'll do guys' and some post removal works a treat.
If the mods won't subscribe you could put the mod forum at the top of the index so they can't miss it.
True, but that requires very active modding, which is difficult with the amount of mods we have compared to the posts.KevC wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2017 8:33 pmIt's only a car forum but it's more the way you run it. You make the right kind of sections, the people have a common interest, you don't let things boil over too much. I see too many forums where slanging matches go on for pages and pages with no one stopping it. Of course to some extent that relies on one of the users reporting it because you can't possibly read every post every day but nipping things in the bud with a 'that'll do guys' and some post removal works a treat.
Great idea!
But the whole site is only run by 2 people and gets circa 50 posts a day. Works fine. It's more how you do it. We both visit every day. We have a topic where we know if one of us is going to be away. It's never 100% unattended except overnight UK time but we don't have many overseas members so that's not a problem. We don't get hit by spam either so it ticks along with very little mod input. And we're not heavy handed so the users don't see us as 'power freaks'.