Need opinions on my conspirology forum ( conspiracy )

submitted by Conspirologist

I made a forum on an independent, not Zionist platform, in case VOAT is taken down.

Can you please take a look and share your opinion if there is any subforum needed to add?

http://conspirology.freeforums.net/

FreeToLive

Here's a tip. Don't host on free forums. Get an actual forum boards software and do it right.

I think it's a good idea but if you're not going to at least put $10a month into it why should we switch?

Also holy hell thats a lot of topics. People hate it when topics are spread thin across multiple boards. That means you have to open up 30 boards just to see all the new posts. Nobody is going to do that.

Conspirologist

I have no idea what you are talking about. Do you have ADHD?

10615700?

nice work, great effort!

Wuttier

You have a lot boards. Perhaps cluster it a little more together? Not everything has to be divided into multiple boards. But if you're sticking with it, don't forget to add free-energy/zero-point-energy to Technology.

Conspirologist

Can you elaborate? I am clueless right now.

FreeToLive

If you're clueless maybe you shouldn't be a webmaster.

haqpyfeet

If you want I can host you a forum on my domain so you have full control of the back end. Basically what Wuttier is saying is very correct. I've managed a few forums with +2000 members. One of those forums now has 37m posts though I am no longer part of it.

Basically your issues boil down to two categories. 1. Where do people congregate? 2. What's the point?

The first issue is that your subforums come across as more of a political statement, they convey your beliefs about the world rather consist of a plan for organizing conversations. Groups of people are like mold in a petri dish, they congregate around a central thing they like(to eat) and expand outward into broader categories. In your case you have way more places for conversation than there are even users and no one likes talking to an empty room. So my sugestion; axe basically all the boards and wait until you have some users posting. Let them steer the platform by discussing themes, then add a new board when the side discussion is too loud in the room.

The number two question of what the point is also needs work. I am an end user that fell on your page. I can't tell from going there what you you are looking for me to talk about. So fix that, pick one or two broad categories, give me a place to share my stories or opinions. Hugbxoes are bad, drama can be useful, don't give every niche group their own hugbox, make them argue their point in a public setting so that we may all learn from the list of posts in those threads.

Conspirologist

What kind of forum engine do you have?

Conspirologist

My forum is not ideological. It's about conspirology. The name is self explanatory.

I understand what you are saying, but it relates to commercially profitable forums, where the goal is to gather as much random users as possible, where quantity overwhelming quality works, because the goal is to sell advertising space. My goal is to make the thinking process comfortable about something like conspiracy that is very hard to focus, because consists in many deceivingly unrelated parts. The subforums represent an aid to focus and to connect the whole spectrum of deceivingly unrelated parts.