Balancing Community Growth

[Foster]

Quick question for a couple forum owners: as your communities gets bigger, how can you keep conversations lively and members happy while making sure the forum stays organized and positive? What ideas do you have for managing the site effectively and adapting to what your members need?

 

[Grant]

I think it comes down to making your forum fun and engaging for the users who join. If you do, people will stick around and you may see a rise is users eventually. Of course doing your usual marketing and SEO will help with potential rises in traffic. So if you can keep people around, then you should be good.

 

[Nomad]

If your community starts growing, you will have more members on your community and more members creating content on your site. When you have more members and activities, you also need someone to check on these members and activities so that there are no spammers, scammers and rul breakers.