Why do you host a Internet Forum?

[Borgia]

Hi guys,

I am thinking of starting a forum. Partly for something to do but I also hope that it will provide a modest income in a couple of years. Why do you do it?

 

[Forsaken]

Picked passion and something to do; My projects tend to be either a time/money sink or are a way of returning something to the community. 

 

[James]

I don't open my forums solely to make an income, the income comes from the features and the effort which comes from the passion I put into creating the forum. As you can see, they're all intertwined to some degree in my own forum.

 

[Dean]

So I have an excuse to consume mass quantities of Ibprophen.

 

[jmurrayhead]

Like the others who posted here...I started mine due to passion for the subject I opened my forums for. I was an active member / moderator on a site who was bought out by a bigger company. Once that happened and things started going downhill, as I suspected they would...I decided to open my own forum.

 

[Brandon_R]

Like the others who posted here...I started mine due to passion for the subject I opened my forums for. I was an active member / moderator on a site who was bought out by a bigger company. Once that happened and things started going downhill, as I suspected they would...I decided to open my own forum.

That seems to happen alot. Something gets bought off by a bigger company, starts to go downhill, the main people in the original scene breaks off and start something better Reminds you of anything?

 

[Sador]

Hehe, starting a forum to make money of it. Good luck with that. I wonder when you'll realize it's not as easy as it seems.

 

[Russ]

Passion, and the passion usually leads to the other categories.

 

[DaKat]

So I have an excuse to consume mass quantities of Ibprophen.

Good one.

 

[Lisa]

I'm into self torture.. and the pain of running a community fulfils my sadistic tendencies

 

[Forsaken]

I'm into self torture.. and the pain of running a community fulfils my sadistic tendencies

Masochistic*

 

[Borgia]

Hehe, starting a forum to make money of it. Good luck with that. I wonder when you'll realize it's not as easy as it seems.

Actually, I do not think that it is easy. And I think that there is a very good chance that I might completly fail. But I want to give it a go.

 

[Sador]

Actually, I do not think that it is easy. And I think that there is a very good chance that I might completly fail. But I want to give it a go.

+1 respect on that.

Still -1 for not wanting to start it because you like it though.

 

[Lee]

I run my forum purely to try and reach out and help.

 

[jonsidneyb]

If I told you the reason I started one you would not believe me.

 

[dutchbb]

First three. But started out as passion/hobby.

 

[Jake Bunce]

For me it is both my passion and it is my online identity. I use my site and forum like most people use Facebook now.

 

[Forsaken]

If I told you the reason I started one you would not believe me.

Pickup girls? It never works :'(.

 

[anotheralias]

I started a forum because the board I was posting on was suddenly yanked offline and we had nowhere to go.

I don't use advertising, so "income" was never a factor.

 

[Borgia]

+1 respect on that.

Still -1 for not wanting to start it because you like it though.

I do not think that I have expressed myself very well. I want to create a forum for a group of people to discuss what interests them. I clearly have an idea of what type of things those will be but it will not be the same as say creating a forum for people who like cars, for example.

So I am not sure that I can say at this point that I like it. What I can say is that I would have really valued this forum at one point and think that it could be a really useful resource for a lot of people. And if that happens, I am sure that I will like it very much

I want to do it properly so it has the best chance of suceeding, that will cost time and money but I want to give it a go