How do you start a forum like this?

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  1. ODENISGOD

    ODENISGOD Suspended

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    You need to pay for a domain name. Than you have to have some one who knows how to design a web page that looks like a forum. Developers and so on. You need a team really. Good luck though.
     
    Master Shake, Aug 1, 2009
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    Start with about 45 knuckleheads...
     
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    Colonel Ronan Continue...?

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    No... You use software such as vBulletin of phpBB...
     
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    TradeNurkicNow piss

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    oh god plz start a forum it would be hilarious
     
    TradeNurkicNow, Aug 2, 2009
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    vbulletin.
     
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  7. Master Shake

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    Fuck that.
     
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    BTOWN_HUSTLA NOW BUZZ KILLINGTON

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    find a hosting company that can autoinstall some board software. they have a fantastico control panel....

    I use SMF: http://www.simplemachines.org/ which has some cool templates.
     
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    I have the know how. Pay me lots of money, and I will build you a forum.
     
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    I use SMF too for our company's support bulletin board. Surprisingly simple to manage, and you can't beat "free". Works pretty much like this forum.

    Building a forum is a snap. Getting people to actually come to it is the tough part. Look at how low the traffic on this board is outside the Blazers section.

    The internet is a big place, and odds are there's somebody who has already built something much better than your idea already.
     
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    There must be a bug in the software, the bots aren't supposed to be posting about how to run a forum. Isn't the focus set to {basketball, global warming}? We may need to strip out their bayesian posting histories and restart them.

    barfo
     
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    You meant to say basketball, global warming and free tacos right?
     
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    That isn't true. The majority of the activity is in the Blazer's forum.
     
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