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What do you think of my forum's welcome message?
- Thread starter James
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Your forum has to live up to the statements though. If they read that its kickass fun and laidback then browse around your forum finding a bunch of strict rules and unfriendly people, then it might work against you.
A welcome message needs to be quick concise. That means short and to the point. You will lose a potential member very quickly if you cannot convince your forum is the best with your welcome message. As with everything, make sure your welcome message contains no spelling or grammatical errors (dsylexia is no excuse) as this will lead the guests to believe it's run by people who cannot yet use basic English.
Hope this helps.
You don't actually need to remove any rules. It's about the enforcement of those rules and how strictly they are enforced. If you want to be laid back, ignore simple little violations that are harmless. If you must remove some rules, change the less serious ones to we would rather not see or we don't encourage instead of do not. To me do not means it will be enforced strictly and you and your moderators will be vigilant towards this and that's not what you want a laid-back forum to be.Adler said:
Hope this helps.
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Well, there's so much that can be done with this message to cut down on the vertical space. For example, you can combine
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so that it reads
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As Nebulous said, though, you should live up to your statements. Also, I'm reminded of a quotation attributed to Anton Chekhov: Donât tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
In this case, instead of just saying you're unique and have kick-ass features, give at least one substantive example to back it up.
Instead, you go right into this:
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which, for the most part, says only that yours is a run-of-the-mill, general discussion forum. I say for the most part because you do mention the option to show off your creations in M.U.G.E.N.
Now, it's not going to be immediately apparent to all guests what M.U.G.E.N. is, and what creations you're referring to. In regard to the latter, I read topics in your M.U.G.E.N. section, and it seems by creations you mean something you refer to as releases, which I assume are mods to M.U.G.E.N. From reading the description to that section, furthermore, it became apparent that M.U.G.E.N. is a freeware fighting game.
That said, you may revise the above code as follows:
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I cut out most of the message, but I'll include it after that sentence about M.U.G.E.N.
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As for your conclusion
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you can streamline it by saying
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Taken together, the revised guest welcome message looks like this:
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After reading the revised version, I'm thinking another example as to why your forum is unique may be a good idea.
My English may be far from perfect, and I may have made numerous grammatical mistakes. Also, my sentences may be improved even if they are contextually correct. Even so, I hope that what I said above may be of some use.
By the way, I have a guest welcome message for my forum. I have revised it countless times, and am still thinking about editing it. Whatever I choose, my goal is always to keep the message short and understandable, but to stuff as much useful information as possible. That pointed out, here is my guest welcome message:
Regards,
Kevin
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