Mystic Forum Review

Aug

2011

Name of the Forum: Mystic Forum
Address: http://mysticforum.forumotion.com
Type of Review (Do not Edit): One Area Review
The area you want your forum to be reviewed in: General
Your Name on the board: Strider Zero

And for the required proof...

If any more proof is required just let me know. Appreciate it.

1 Rideem3, on 13/08/2011 at 05h15

Hi, your forum does not meet the specific requirements needed for the requested review area. Please update your request within 24 hours with an area that meets our requirements, thanks.

Please take another look at our guidelines which are located here.

2 Zero: Divide me, on 13/08/2011 at 05h21

It would help if I knew which area is messed up. I posted thinking I had satisfied the requirements. But I posted the group so is that all I need? If not, I need specifics.

3 Rideem3, on 13/08/2011 at 05h22

Your forum does not have 75 Members, as stated in the guidelines. Therefore, your forum doesn't qualify for a full review.

4 Zero: Divide me, on 13/08/2011 at 05h25

Rideem3 wrote:Your forum does not have 75 Members, as stated in the guidelines. Therefore, your forum doesn't qualify for a full review.

So it's both and not just one or the other? Because my forum more than makes up for members with posts. I've deleted at least 40 members with 1 or 0 posts. There should be some kind of proportion to it. Oh well. I tried.

5 Rideem3, on 13/08/2011 at 05h27

Nope, you need 75 Members and 200 Messages. You do however, qualify for every other review type, other than a full review.

6 Zero: Divide me, on 13/08/2011 at 05h30

OK, thanks. I edited it to a One Area Review.

7 Vlajki, on 13/08/2011 at 14h58

Tagged. Your review will be completed within 24-48 hours.

8 Vlajki, on 14/08/2011 at 22h23

Mystic Forum

General - Average

I'll start from the design. It's not modern at all, very plain but kind of attractive because of these stars and mystic night sky background and header. Header is extremely simple, and I think you should improve it by applying some text effect on Mystic Forum name, or put some icon/illustrated logo which will represent your forum better. The navigation bar would be much better if it wasn't divided and didn't have such poor box and text effects. You should search through the gallery here and you'll surely find better ones. As for the forum body, the colour is okay and it enchants readability, but categories and forums are a bit boring (Short descriptions, no icons to make some contrast from the body...). These icons are also too plain and unattractive, so I suggest you to change them or improve them by adding some more photoshop blending options or whatever you like.
I don't know if I'm right, but I can see some posts dating from 2009... That's 2 years ago and there's 50 members only? I guess the forum was abandoned or haven't got any visits for a long time, and got revived recently. If is, after doing some improvments I suggest you do effective promotion on other forums, web directories and websites. You can include banner exchanges and similar, so visitors of other forums can track your forum down easily. As for the staff memebers number, it's okay. When I try to find originality in your forum, I don't really can, because it's one of the thousands forums with general subject matter, and doesn't have something which can get it easily remembered. So, all in all, I think you should redesign it or hire a designer to do it, and start promotion it, aswell. Therefore, my grade is Average.

Regards,
V.

9 Zero: Divide me, on 15/08/2011 at 04h22

Thank you for the review. To be clear, the site has been active for two years at least. I've also deleted many members due to inactivity. Basically the people that stick tend to post a lot. I guess it's a hit or miss forum.

10 Rideem3, on 15/08/2011 at 04h32

Your review has been proofread and has been marked "completed." This review has been accepted and will now be moved to the official review archives.

If there were any mistakes that I found to be a misunderstanding, I edited it out, and made the correct additions to the review in bold color.