Join the brainstorming fun and help me out. What don’t you like about the existing domaining forums? Too much noise? What would you like me to do differently? What about the launch, any suggestions? Maybe a contest with HUGE prizes (three winners, $5,000/$3,000/$2,000 and then lots of other stuff)?
Just let your imagination run wild. I want to launch a forum based on what you guys are interested in. After all, I’m counting on all of you becoming loyal members 😉
Looking forward to hearing some opinions. What would you like me to do differently? How would you like me to organize the contest? Random winners? Or should I reward people based on how much value they provide? If so, how should I pick the winners? A voting system? Should I pick them myself? A jury?
October 30th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
I’m not sure I would actually participate in another forum, I barely follow most forums today. However I’m always for innovation.
Rewarding people on value provided is always a good thing – just what we try to do at SharedReviews, a product review website we developed. I think it’s best to find a way that allows the community to indirectly determine the winner – by a means of combining votes and maybe traffic etc?
Good luck with your plans.
October 30th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
A filtered marketplace, have a separate folder for useless domains and as for the rest of them hire a moderator to weed through the domains and only publish threads which don’t defy logic.
October 30th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
I would like to see an invite only forum. I think that would help keep out the fluff.
Yes, it could get to the point where people are selling invites , but if it gets to that point, it could be dealt with.
October 30th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
For the contest, reward the members which contribute the most but it would be hard to pick the winners. If you try a voting system, people would be able to register other accounts and influence the vote in their favor. For prizes of that magnitude, even registering 1000 accounts could be worth it.
October 30th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
…………………PS: other methods of voting would have other problems. If you pick a jury forum members will question the people on it, I have no idea how you could please everyone.
October 30th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
I wouldn’t give $10K to domainers. They are cheap and wouldn’t appreciate it!
Why start a new forum? You must have reasons if you were thinking about it…start with those ideas/changes…what would separate you from others?
I always thought as domainers progress and get better and more successful in the trade, the forums become less important.
Have something that separates you and best of luck.
Paul
October 30th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Here’s a idea for you, build a domaining social community using free open source software… wordpress mu and buddypress with bbpress.
“BuddyPress is a suite of WordPress plugins and themes, each adding a distinct new feature. BuddyPress contains all the features you’d expect from WordPress but aims to let members socially interact.”
http://buddypress.org/about/
October 30th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Giving away so much money represents a shock factor but also think quantity. Use $10k for the top 3 prizes like your original idea was but also spend another $5k on a lot of smaller prizes. 25 $250 prizes would also be an incentive.
October 30th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Just pay special attention to fraud, there will be attempts I’m sure. Maybe you could always organize monthly contests with prizes like $500 for the top member of the month. So you’ll have your main contest with the very large prizes but aside from it invest a couple of hundreds monthly in prizes to reward the active members which help the community the most through their posts.
November 1st, 2009 at 10:19 am
@ Bob Lange
That probably the best idea on this thread. Forget forums. They are so early to 2000’s.. What this industry needs is a social network so we don’t have to keep talking to each other on the comment sections of blogs.
November 1st, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Thanks a lot guys, give me a few days to think things through: I’ll try my best to come up with something great. Once again, thanks a LOT for taking the time to contribute with a suggestion. I really appreciate it!
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