Pleaze Critic My Forum

[emil2k]

Hello I would like a review of my forum at
http://forum.gig4free.com

Im not a POWWEB customer but I would like an opninion on my own small community based on members of a well developed community like this one,

Thanks Everyone :cool:

[linnetwoods]

I'll tell you what I think. I think you know perfectly well that your forum is fine the way it is and you are just in here touting for business for the web hosting website that is linked to by the www button next to your name on the members list. Maybe I am being cynical but I think you have an unbelievable cheek posting on a competitors website!

I am not flattering you when I say competitor - all companies start out small and grow. Whether you are actually able to deliver or not isn't the point, you should not be in here on the forums of a rival asking their clients to visit your site on the pretext of critiquing it, even if that request is genuine. It makes you look unethical or naive and either thing is not good for your business image.

Whether you are deliberately trying to poach their business or not, members like me find it distasteful that you are here doing this. Sorry, but I speak as I find. Live and learn.

[emil2k]

I'll tell you what I think. I think you know perfectly well that your forum is fine the way it is and you are just in here touting for business for the web hosting website that is linked to by the www button next to your name on the members list. Maybe I am being cynical but I think you have an unbelievable cheek posting on a competitors website!

I am not flattering you when I say competitor - all companies start out small and grow. Whether you are actually able to deliver or not isn't the point, you should not be in here on the forums of a rival asking their clients to visit your site on the pretext of critiquing it, even if that request is genuine. It makes you look unethical or naive and either thing is not good for your business image.

Whether you are deliberately trying to poach their business or not, members like me find it distasteful that you are here doing this. Sorry, but I speak as I find. Live and learn.

Ok I understand but the sites are not competitors at all its just a forum, the free hosting is tied in because it is the support forum, nobody sign up OK

Just a review is all I want :confused:

PS So lw did you like the forum?

[linnetwoods]

Not madly keen on the colour scheme, to be honest, but it works really fast and most people don't visit forums for the colour scheme!

Seemed some quite lively members there, if not literary geniuses at least spirited characters! It's the people that make a forum, given a reasonable speed of page load etc., and your forum has all that for me, but then I'm not a good person to ask these days. My bandwidth is half as much again as T1 so everything loads fast, regardless!

Good luck!

[Marko Peric]

The forums seem stable and functional, but the colour scheme looks like Christmas blew up. Red and green might be nice colours, but together they invoke late December. Perhaps replace the red with something else?

[emil2k]

The forums seem stable and functional, but the colour scheme looks like Christmas blew up. Red and green might be nice colours, but together they invoke late December. Perhaps replace the red with something else?

Well the red is the main color of the free hosting site logo...so I was looking for consistency...

Anything else, how about the ads do you like the way I integrated them...

[linnetwoods]

Looks like it's the green that's going to have to go then!:D

[Marko Peric]

Honestly, I find that the ads break the flow of reading the forum postings. And I've always hated having the entire cell clickable in forums, I find that I accidently click on posts.