HaumbbomJog
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I work at a web design company that manages its clients' corporate social media. This is a mini handbook of what I have learned are the most neglected activities that can aid a forum like this to grow its users. I am not trying to tell anybody how to run their forum 
just sharing my work experience.
1-Enable the community.
You need to select the best users in your forum and make them moderators. This helps your forum by making it easier for you to keep it free of spam and also gives the community a sense of belonging. An enabled user will talk about, share and +1 your forum more and this will help the community add more users.
2-Allow topic diversity.
Removing off-topic posts angers the poster and such off-topic pages could be indexed in google and bring you some extra vists from keywords that you would not get at all. Keep off-topic posts or move them to an off-topic section, but do not delete them. In my experience keeping such posts can increase your google visitors by up to 25%.
3-Encourage the Loyal users
You do not need to give expensive giftsat all, all you need is to put kind words of appreciation to the specific individuals by name in your posts or replies to them. Words such “Thanks for the excellent post as usual.” or such make a big difference.
4-Trolls are sometimes not trolls
Sometimes a person has just had a hard day (not all people are single lol). Sometimes certain terms will bring out the worst reaction in a person. Do not judge by the first time, give a guy a break and do not revoke their membership from the first sign of trolling.
just sharing my work experience. 1-Enable the community.
You need to select the best users in your forum and make them moderators. This helps your forum by making it easier for you to keep it free of spam and also gives the community a sense of belonging. An enabled user will talk about, share and +1 your forum more and this will help the community add more users.
2-Allow topic diversity.
Removing off-topic posts angers the poster and such off-topic pages could be indexed in google and bring you some extra vists from keywords that you would not get at all. Keep off-topic posts or move them to an off-topic section, but do not delete them. In my experience keeping such posts can increase your google visitors by up to 25%.
3-Encourage the Loyal users
You do not need to give expensive giftsat all, all you need is to put kind words of appreciation to the specific individuals by name in your posts or replies to them. Words such “Thanks for the excellent post as usual.” or such make a big difference.
4-Trolls are sometimes not trolls
Sometimes a person has just had a hard day (not all people are single lol). Sometimes certain terms will bring out the worst reaction in a person. Do not judge by the first time, give a guy a break and do not revoke their membership from the first sign of trolling.
