I agree with Circus. We tried implementing our own local community based forum. We already had a huge local online presence so we thought we could get people to start posting in the forum. WRONG.

People want to interact with other posters, so if they see a community of members posting they will join. However, without that community its very difficult to start.

When you see some large forums (like WPW), they were usually started when there wasn't that many forums for the same "theme".

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