Subforums in guilds

[shall she sail seas]

Hmm... what do you mean there's no info about the subforums? Not quite sure I understand you here, Neo.  

[Matadair]

I visit all of the subforums in my Pokemon guild once, almost everytime that I am online.  

[Spring and Summer]

My members hardly ever visit the subforums, but in order to sort of motivate them to do so, I created a "Chatterbox", "Extended Discussion", "Roleplay Forum" and "Contests Forum". People go to the chatterbox, but not very much in the other ones =[  

[Matadair]

In most guilds, the subforums are never active. They would be if the quantity of the members increased.  

[LillianSaire]

LillianSaire

I think dead subforums teach people to not visit subforums, which makes them all dead. Excessive subforums and no reason to use them (such as the main forum not moving even half a page in a day) are part of what started this cycle. When the main is slow the crew and captain care less about putting threads where they should go, putting a thread in a subforum to keep in on a first page isn't needed, and typically the different uses for each forum in the guild will be more narrow than they need to be.

A cycle.
Read it.

With no or few new thread in a subforum people check less and therefore post less there. Fewer people go, fewer bother to make the thread there instead of somewhere else. Thus, eventually no one visits the subforum any more.

Sure, new members will go there, maybe post. It won't take long for them to stop checking too.

A cycle, and it spreads from one guild to the next too.

Stop going a**l about organizing by using 10 subs, or force them to be used once you make them. Seriously, even massive guilds have dead subforums because visiting them is that much out of habit. Only make or set up a sub for use if it is necessary and if the guild has enough activity to support it.