I tried to help with this problem months ago. There are too many forums. Lots of post get lost there and never even get a reply. This is devastating to new person. No response = dead forum.jettej said:We need more NEW people that will be active and serious in the forum. This will also increase the forums activity.
Forums we don't need:
Forum Operations
ID Forum
Introduction Thread
Photo Contest Thread should be a sticky in General.
Market Rules - should be stickies.
Aquatic Plants and Corals - Should be a part of freshwater/saltwater livestock sections.
Wanted items- people can put WTB in the for sale section
Free Items - People can put FREE in the for sale section
Rate Our Fish Stores should be combined with sponsor stores.
Also Sponsor stores should be encouraged to be active on their thread to keep their sponsorship status. Why do we keep people as sponsors who haven't been active in over a year?
Having 30 forum topics makes us look big. But that's all it does, the more you separate the conversation the worse the conversation will flow. Most of the saltwater forums should be merged into one until it's needed... Look at Saltwater fish breeding. 5 topics have been created there in the years this forum as been going... Most forums with less than 100 topics should just be combined into other things.