3 easy ways to undermine your reputation when you set up an online forum
1) Set up a forum and then leave it empty. An empty forum will stay empty. It takes an huge amount of effort to populate a forum and breath enough life into it for it to stand on its own two feet so unless you have the energy and commitment, don’t start it. An empty forum is like tumbleweed blowing through your site.
2) Fail to notice that your only contributor is an anal sex obsessed transvestite spammer. Wonder why no-one’s checking into your forum? Uncontrolled spam kills forums stone dead.
3) Allow conflict to break out on your forum. Tempting, because it attracts viewers but unless you’re a guru of self-control and a master of clean communication, you’ll be waltzing into a minefield from which nobody is likely to emerge unscathed. Harsh, but true, I’m afraid – no matter how right you think you are.
