how to get people to join my political forum
 

How do you guys get people to join your forum?

I've just started a political forum and am trying to get people to join, but it's really hard.

Any advice or suggestions?

tell them you support abbortion and gay rights. that should work.

and you support gun control

those topics always get people to start talking and crying

LOL wtf.

join many toplist and affilate

can you suggest me some toplists and affiliates?

i wasn't able to find any

Top lists are good and all, but they wont do JACK if you don't build content.

what would be good content for a political forum?

arguements
many opinions
discussions that are easy to chat about

Join other forums and affilate

- choose a specific topic/group/area
- create hot topics for this group
- change the style .. the current style is boring and does not scream "politics"
- get a new logo

Let the site grow... when the time comes you can concentrate on other areas of politics.

ROFL! Those get my debate board all hot and bothered! :D

I TOLD YOU ALREADY!!! PAY ATTENTION!!!

Create topics in gay rights, abortion, telling people the holocaust wasn't real, um.... womens rights, affirmative action, immigration, IRAQ, IRAQ, IRAQ, IRAN, IRAQ, IRAQ, President Bush, President Cliton, Liberals, Democrats, Republicans, Global Warming, Global Cooling, Corp Greed, and why Communism and Socialist are trying to over take America and .. IRAQ.

Did I mention IRAQ?

Tell people how the jew's control everything and we should all convert to islam and hug a terrorist.

Get rid of the redundant forums. Political discussions always turn into debates. Get rid of the political debates category. Move the threads into one of the other forums.

Get rid of all the forums under the general political category. Leave only U.S. Politics and World Politics. No need to have a poll forum. I have one, but, my users prefer to post polls in the topics. My mods will move polls into the poll forum. If they didn't the poll forum would never be used. I have thought about removing it, but, since I have good mods I leave it.

I would also condense the Social Discussions. Consolidate them into one or 2.

Rewrite the forum descriptions if you do any of the above to better define what goes where.

If you leave the forum as is you'll have a hard time retaining new users if they sign up. Less forums makes the ones you have seem more active.
You can always add forums when the need arises. My debate forum started as one category with 2 forums. I've added as needed and since my users requested the forums they are all active.

I can see this turning into a flame topic ^^

Do this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=138850 and then refuse to ever concede or agree, that will get people talking and keep them talking. I'm good at getting those topics rolling. At some point you can just step back and let it snow ball on its own.

Hi,

I run a fairly successful Political Forum - Basically I had a hard core group of 50 posters when I moved off EZBoard which kept the activity flowing when I moved it onto my own domain. The last 3 years I have concentrated on SEO, SEO and SEO. My site now ranks top 10 for current affairs in google.com and #2 for current affairs in google.co.uk

I am looking to give the site a complete overhaul though, so as it looks professional rather than a hobby site.

If you want to swap links, send me an email dave @ politicsandcurrentaffairs.co.uk

www.politicsandcurrentaffairs.co.uk

Dave

Interesting Concept