As to why, I think there are many reasons for starting a forum. For me, it's because I don't care much for the idea of building content on other sites without benefit to myself. I have built a few communities, but I'm still too new to the game to have had any success in it yet.
Keeping a forum going? I think the most important thing is for the forum master to continue to make daily additions to the forum, posting as often as possible, and then some. Also, the forum master should post more natural posts, as opposed to offering articles, to get more interactivity like forums should have, as opposed to just having readers like blogs have.
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