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Old 22-10-2008, 09:18 PM
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When would you think a site is ready to add a forum (unique visitor wise) ?


I don't want to fall into the trap of having an empty forum making the site look bad... at the moment I am on 500-1000 uniques a day (all traffic is very targeted though)...
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I don't think traffic should be the only deciding factor.

Does the site lend itself to discussion?
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I don't think traffic should be the only deciding factor.

Does the site lend itself to discussion?
i think it does...

a board on the same topic has about 15million posts and 300k members, but it's very much the big fish with nothing else close...

also about 30% of my traffic comes from this board....

there is about 15 other smaller board on the topic , but none bigger than this forum here...
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