While the forum is still young, some of the following could help:
- Reward steadfast posters with recognition (A title like founding member, distinguished member etc tends to make people fell special).
- Try to create new threads (people tend to post and post and post on one thread, sometime it may be useful to nudge posters by starting threads for them.
- If possible have a referral mechanism/reward (make it easy for members to recommend the forum to potential members).
- Ensure its easy to join (i have left join a few forums in the past because CATCHA is just too crazy).
- Be tolerant of weird people (some very nice posters are sometimes quite different, some people will say ban then, I usually like this king of people, as long as they are not spammers).
Good luck.
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