Whats your best forum topic?

Hi guys,

I would like to know, what was your best forum topic?  :)

It's really to give ideas on other forum admin's to give good topics to encourage new/old members to post.

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I think that this is a very tough question to answer....

I say that because to answer this you must first answer the question "What is a good forum topic?"....

I will think about it, and maybe come back later to post my opinion :)

There's no rush, but maybe look back at the beginning when your forum first started.

Well I don't think the topic is what makes the forum good, but the feeling of the whole forum.

For instance here at webdigity we are more like a familly :) (or at least I think so....) The loyal members of this community care for each other, and really like to help each other.

I believe that feeling is making people stay attached to this community, not the topics or the graphics or anything else....

the best one ever was "The crazy post contest"

Yeah that was cool. Maybe we should do that again some time.

http://www.webdigity.com/index.php/topic,2310.0.The+crazy+post+contest.html

I think the better ones are the ones that start by asking a question/opinion and turn into a water-cooler type conversation with opinions and ideas being exchanged along with a few private jokes between members.

Not sure there is any sort of recipe to use to purposefully create these thread - I tend to think they just happen.

Some good ideas. Looks like a contest is proberly the best way to get visitors.

Just need a new mobile phone or something :D

I had a topic called 'What are you listening to right now?" and that went on for about a year!
Another one i saw on a rival forum was count to 1000, that went on for a while but i dont know if it was finished
If you get something rolling you could split the posts into different topics when the conversation get going.

contests are fun...

Nice idea....

http://www.webdigity.com/index.php/topic,7680.0.What+are+you+listening+to+right+now%3F.html :)

I think it depends on your website and if there are several types of categories or just one to focus on.  For my website, I only focus on baseball (sports) cards so it makes no sense to bring up other topics, at least until more members are there and maybe general sports talk seems fit as well.

Hello! Nice to see you! What is your first opinion about this forum?

The problem with those topics that go on forever is that you can't read them all. Then people just read the first page or two and post. I'm not sure that's very engaging or providing much use. My first question back is "What's the purpose of your forum?" Topics that spur on intelligent discussion in the spirit of the purpose of the forum are your best topics.

quote of the day is always a good one! also the wht are you listening to always works well.

I didn't have any forum but i am the member of a couple of forums.
I think the point of forums are to put people who share the same interest together, and talk and learn!

my best topic for forum is SEO.

My best topic in the forum is web site design and development.

Our top picks for forum topics are SEO or website promotion.

That was frees. Maybe supposed to do that one more some time.

My favorite topic is Google and SEO related stuff

I think mine was the tutorial I did about .htaccess, quite a few people foun it useful

forum posting is the easy to do but when it's come they have to related your site so it's very hard to post comment i have Construction Machinery
project now i have to do forum for that but really i am very new in Construction Machinery could say i don't any think about Machinery??????

i have no forum

For me best topic is SEO, and chat section, for me it is not important , what matters is I feel proud to become a member of this large family and when i see people have achieved so many posts and are connected for such a long time. Hope to be like one of those. And we get to learn so many new things from this site

Regards,
Neet

Sometimes the best forum topic is "Let's count from 1 to 1 million", depending on what audience you have there. On the other had, contests are very nice!

Haven't successfully done a forum topic. But I guess I post more on the web design and review sites area. It's a challenge for me now to build a good forum topic. I still have to learn a lot.

Well if you are talking about this forum...
I love the ... daily tips thread!!

My best forum topic is about search engine optimization. I want to get more knowledge through the forums.

crazy post contest!!

My favorite topic is Google,yahoo ,bing and SEO related stuff.......