Preventing Member Turnover

[BBNZowner]

Does anyone have some good tips on this?
I get quite a few sign ups, many very promising, but they fade away after a month of so. I understand it is part of my forum's growing pains (we're still reasonably young) and it 'just happens', but I'm sure there are things we could be doing to prevent it.

[RichieBoy67]

Good, useful and unique content and a sense of community. Once people make friends they are less likely to leave.

Many people, most probably just read forums and never even register so just getting people to register and post for a bit is a major part of the battle.

[tbworld]

Originally Posted by BBNZowner

Does anyone have some good tips on this?
I get quite a few sign ups, many very promising, but they fade away after a month of so. I understand it is part of my forum's growing pains (we're still reasonably young) and it 'just happens', but I'm sure there are things we could be doing to prevent it.

Send me a link to your board, so I can take a look.

[webmastersun]

Originally Posted by BBNZowner

Does anyone have some good tips on this?
I get quite a few sign ups, many very promising, but they fade away after a month of so. I understand it is part of my forum's growing pains (we're still reasonably young) and it 'just happens', but I'm sure there are things we could be doing to prevent it.

Email them when having a new reply on their thread or offer dofollow links on signature and if they didn't back forum then hide automatiocally after 10 days as my forum did.

you can see on my forum http://www.webmastersun.com to have a look and references

[plubius]

You have a beautiful site webmastersun! How long did it take you to build such fantastic forum?