How to make the Forums tick

[chris devine]

Hello guys,

I need tips regarding>

Things I know:
1: Quality is most important
2: Content is important
3: Good and Freindly environment.

Things I need to know:

How to get members to stick to my forums, I'm just starting a community and whenver I do something, I put lots of research into it b4 I go ahead with the project, so I just basically want to know everything you can teach me. I want may members and regular members, I dont want like 500k members, posting x000k useless threads, I want quality discussion, but at the same time I want to keep it casual...

any tips would be appreciated..cheers.

Edit: oops typo, if any mods come across and arent really busy could fix it, thanks.

[WL-Michael]

Well, start with something that you know something about. I often see people trying to "jump in a lake without knowing how to swim in it", get what I mean? If you know alotta things about cars start a cars forum, or even better a ford cars forum. Alotta topics/niches have been played out so you'll probably have a hard time competing with the big boys. But just go with something you know and work your butt off on it and 9 times out of 10 you'll succeed.

[Canuckkev]

http://www.theadminzone.com

[chris devine]

cheers thanks guys :-) really helpfull