We at The Mare’s Nest run this blog primarily for our own amusement. Running a forum no one visits or posts in is depressing and humiliating being a valued regular contributor to a particular forum by contrast is as rewarding (for you and those reading your posts) as running the damn thing yourself.
If you can’t – or won’t – then help out on someone else’s board instead and do yourself a favour as much as them. You have to be prepared to put in the time to create content to allow for those days when your participants are all dried out of new things to say. potentially a new download appearing.īut make no mistake, as those on Simaroo and Simaniacs have found to their cost, once the posts start to tail off, it is an uphill struggle to get people back into the habit. Of course, incident notoriety can get the punters in, such as Aarin’s Jazz-Hands and Sims3Rich’s Insane Sims (but that can swiftly wear thin), and forums linked to the creators of custom content, whether it be on the scale of TSR or the micro-levels of Jazz-Hands have a natural advantage in that respect, because there’s a tangible benefit for users in getting into the habit of making regular checks on what’s going on – ie. You know she’s going to get banned for saying this, don’t you?Ĭonsidering the numbers that have bought the Sims and the numbers that visit the main forum, there is no reason why there cannot be dozens of successful web boards dedicated to the game all over the shop.īut whilst starting a web board is all very well, running one successfully is another matter, and unless you’re willing to put in the time putting in the content to keep it going and to keep the punters happy, then interest will swiftly wane in the face of longer, established boards with a guarantee of plenty of traffic – the biggest of course being the EA one.
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