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Originally Posted by Max Taxable

I've never recommended or liked spam-o-matic. But the other two linked, don't bother legitimate humans at all and none would even know they exist. So there is no way those hurt a forum in any way. Additionally, "Spambot Stopper" wasn't even around when you started your forum.

You like having thousands of fake user accounts in your member list. Most do not.You want the spammers to register successfully, but you don't want their spam posts? That's a *snigger*

Yes, that is correct. Anything that makes your forum look larger is more appealing. This is my opinion maybe not yours.

None of this is going to affect if you are successful or not.

To build a successful forum you must have traffic and people posting. To get there is a whole other story.

It's different for everyone. I was lucky enough to purchase one forum and get all the members from two other forums that failed. There is a lot of luck involved along with your experience.

No one will ever open a forum create sections and people just appear from nowhere, you must mold and build it yourself. Starting by posting yourself. We now have over 5 million posts, and 9 staff members to help run the forums. We must be doing something right


I'm not bragging I am trying to make the OP understand that it takes years to build a successful forum. Most forums fail within a month. Just go around clicking links here to forums. Most of the links are dead.

If you want to be successful you must look at what successful forums are doing. I started out watching digitalpoint. That guy has it down to a science.

And he does it without VBSEO and all the addons.

However, he did switch to Xenforo recently.