Getting Members Addicted and Active on your forum

Another great post by Martin.  Some of the best points are:

Keep the community visible. 
This applies to Lefora groups especially.  Making your group private only closes it off from people discovering it and from Google indexing the posts and threads you and your members create.  Keep it as open as possible.
Invite new members to get involved
Send private messages to people as they join.  Introducing yourself and being friendly often time is enough to spark interest in your group.

The others he describes perfectly so no need for me to reiterate.  Most importantly I feel that being open and helping your members will result in a great community in the long run.

http://www.communityspark.com/community-building-getting-members-active-and-addicted/

we had a troll, which can be entertaining, and something for bored members something to concentrate on.

However after a time the troll becomes boring.

So should we absolutely try to stop trolls from entering our site?

I love trolls, unless they're spamming, or name calling,  I leave them alone.

it's much better to leave your site open for all the potential new traffic you can get (just like we do here on support).  You should try to deal with trolls on a one-off basis, here's a great article on how to deal with trolls.

http://blog.lefora.com/2009/01/21/internet-trolls/

people joined my site but they never come back on to even look at the mail i sent them. how can i get my forum active like that.

We'll be introducing auto-newsletters over the next few months.  That will email members of your forum about new activity since over the past week - this should help encourage them to come back and be active.

YAY for that!

In our group we keep ppl addicted to the games we play....
 
 

Thanak you for the advice!

we had a troll, which can be entertaining, and something for bored members something to concentrate on.
However after a time the troll becomes boring.
So should we absolutely try to stop trolls from entering our site?

-mrtom

What are trolls???

never mind. I know what they are now