Actually building a forum website is the easy bit, yes that is right installing the software is only around 5% of the work needed to get a good forum up and running.
Once you have uploaded the software you will then need to configure the colours and the general theme of the website, and upload you own logo. Whilst it can take a lot of time to do this and get it looking great, this is only the first step on your road to creating a good forum.
One of the first issues only new forum will have to deal with is spam, as forums attract every low life spammer there is out there. It does not matter what your forum topic is, they will spam it regardless. They do not care if they are putting up adult links on a forum for children.
So you will need to moderate your forum right from the start. You can choose to pre-approve members but it you do this you will limit the number of people that actually sign up in the first place. Just ensure that they have to confirm their email address, this alone will cut out eighty to ninety percent of the forum spam.
You should also set up your forum to ask the users registering a random question, and make it a word answer e.g do not put 'What is 2+5' as the question, make it something like 'What is the capital of America'. This should stamp out all automatically generated spam. Do not use the question with numbers in as some of the autospam bots have even been programmed to look for and answer such questions. Yes that really is how sad some of these people are.
You will also need to set aside at least an hour a day to moderate peoples comments in line with the rules you have set out in your forum.
Things to consider are to only allow links to other sites from peoples forum signatures. If people repeatedly put links in their posts then you should class this as spam and delete it. Repeated offenders should be banned and all of their posts deleted.
Eliminating the forum spam at the start will help you to run a good forum that people will want to join and keep coming back to, A poorly moderated forum just puts people off joining and coming back.
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