[Dave]

There is a difference between successful forums and good forums you can't be both because in the end thier goal conflict one another to the point the Admin would go nuts trying to balance the goals.

Good Forums - Have a loyal following because the Admins work hard on making every single member feel welcome and they do everything they can to keep things alive. TSL is the perfect example of a good forum the topics and such are more theory based and aren't all exciting but still Mike makes them interesting in other ways and things flow togather and people stay interested. Good forums like TSL will not have thousands of members when I say thousands Im talking 5000 + but it will make up for this in the amount of dedicated members.

Successful Forums - Forums that somehow strike on a concept or topic that is widely popular and keeps new members coming in on a steady basis and a little hard work at the beggining and things just kinda take off and with some advertising later and promotion of your fourum you find yourself with a monster on your hands. At this point you are successful you'll never have the loyal following good forums have but despite that new members will just keep rolling in and you by the nature of this you are driven to keep the member count going up up up and you cant take the time to care about the day to day concerns of members. Eventually your forum topic will die out and membership will slow down and this will eventually lead to forum death.

To sum up
Good forums

• + Long lifespan
• + Loyal members
• + Well run and maintained always fun
• - Depends solely on great adminship
• - Slow but steady growth

Successful forums

• + Widely Poular
• + Very active
• + Lots of members
• - Dies out with the topic
• - 1 person can devote his or or herself to it because it is simply to big
• - Harder to manage

[+ Ryan]

Holy Christ, Dave.. Change the font color. I can't even read that.. Unless I select it all.

Overall, a good review of the distinguishing between good and successful forums. Very accurate.

[Dave]

Hope that's better, and thanks for the review.

[+ Ryan]

Much better. And you're welcome, it's a fine article. Not many people can tell the difference between these two.

[//Aneurysm\\]

I guess I got a good forum.....if that.....

[Michael]

I took the liberty of adding in some friendly text formatting changes in.
Excellent article Dave

[Muhammad Haris]

I got a good forum maybe!

Excellent article!

5/5

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