[nakitakona]

You are right. In building a forum site which has the platform of paying its members through posting of discussion, reacting, and commenting, the funding should be viable and liquid. It has the capacity to pay all his legit members for a valid activities as required in the Forum rules, terms and conditions. If there;s none, better not to open a Forum site.

Next is the algorithm of computing the earnings of every member. It should be computed to greatly benefit the owner/administrator of the site.

It will take time to establish the integrity of a Forum site. A year or two is not enough.

[DreekLass]

You are right. In building a forum site which has the platform of paying its members through posting of discussion, reacting, and commenting, the funding should be viable and liquid. It has the capacity to pay all his legit members for a valid activities as required in the Forum rules, terms and conditions. If there;s none, better not to open a Forum site.

Next is the algorithm of computing the earnings of every member. It should be computed to greatly benefit the owner/administrator of the site.

It will take time to establish the integrity of a Forum site. A year or two is not enough.

I agree. The variables would always be changing, since people would be joining and leaving all the time.

[SHOHANA]

suffering the same problem don't know the specific reason behind this, its very sad that almost forum site have the same behaviour

[garys.pdx]

If you are making money from a site you should take the time to look at their advertisers, its only equitable.

[thisnthat]

Next is the algorithm of computing the earnings of every member. It should be computed to greatly benefit the owner/administrator of the site.

Yeah. I'm pretty sure that's never been an issue, lol. No site is going to give out more to the members than it keeps for itself. That wouldn't make sense.

I think the biggest issue is policing the quality.

[shagunK]

I do not have much experience on paid forums. First paid forum I joined last year and I liked that but before I reach to $5 cash out threshold forum closed and second I joined is forumcoin , here I cashed out $5 few days back.

I hoping FC will earn better and increase pay rates & sustain years.

[DreekLass]

I wonder if some forums have to stop members from joining to maintain what they are able to earn. Some forums on PL do not accept more posters because they don't want to spend any more on points.

[oldfriend]

I have sort of found out the same. However, the ones that I think won't make it, seemed to work and the ones I think will make it seem to fail.

I don't think it is anyone item.

I would imagine internet server problems and bandwidth have a lot to do with it.

Oldfriend

[nakitakona]

In my personal observation most of the forum is created by a sole person who is too optimistic to gain the prestige of an ambitious individual to get rich by a forum site that promises and gives a return of revenue from the ads in his site. Well as a matter of weeks, months or barely a year dies of a natural death due to lack of funds or the revenues derived are not enough to pay the share of his users.

[LovingMyBabies]

Sadly I have been on many different sites and they have gone down hill fast. I think at some point its possible for any site to fail. =( That's why I am on a few sites now and I don't put all of my eggs in one basket per se.

[DreekLass]

Sadly I have been on many different sites and they have gone down hill fast. I think at some point its possible for any site to fail. =( That's why I am on a few sites now and I don't put all of my eggs in one basket per se.

I have been witness to a few sites that have gone down ad fallen fast. But in general, most of the sites that I have worked with have been around a long time. The quickest to fall was BMN though.

[bharatsharma08]

Forums come and go, and not just forums but many other writing sites. This is the part of internet life. Advertisers have a lot of platform to advertise their products and because of availabiity of so many platform average earning per ad has decreased a lot in the last couple of years, search engines keep changing their algorithm which can make or break a site, and users are also using ad blockers these days which means another hit on the earning of forums.

[DreekLass]

Forums come and go, and not just forums but many other writing sites. This is the part of internet life. Advertisers have a lot of platform to advertise their products and because of availabiity of so many platform average earning per ad has decreased a lot in the last couple of years, search engines keep changing their algorithm which can make or break a site, and users are also using ad blockers these days which means another hit on the earning of forums.

I had never really though about it this way before. But great point. With Android and all of the ads that come with applications and such, and with the popularity of the Android platform, it makes sense that this would take revenue away from other writing websites.

[laksh]

Well, I think people are mostly into social media these days.. so its getting harder for forums to sustain.

[oldbuddy]

It looks to me like Forum Coin is doing a pretty good job of it. The admins have a good handle on what adjustments need to be made to keep it viable and already have a good track record to base future needs on, so I expect it to keep right on humming along for years to come. They have my full support.

[chikitta]

To me i think the main reason boils down to the payments i think the rate at which payments are made is quite high but i think if they regulate the amount of posts one makes that could help like the way fc has done everyone doing just 10 posts in a day that helps alot in the flow of payments.

[thisnthat]

Most of the ones that I see crash and burn do so because they don't regulate their forums well enough. I'm not saying they need to be iron-fisted control freaks, but you can't just let spammers poop all over your forums either (especially in a paid to post setting).

[philo]

I was part of great forums before ,that paid .15 for each post but they paid so long after that stopped paying.Forum coin feels great place to chat about even-though the money earning is very less