Well I never actually intended to create another forum after I stepped down as admin of PWM. I had helped take that place from a quiet forum that wasn't well organised into a thriving forum that actually had some good discussions. I was burnt out from doing that for a couple of years and I desperately needed a break.
Over the coming months I still talked with PWM members on msn and they would always show me e-feds that they had created on free forums. I told them that it would never survive on a free forum and that if they wanted to survive they should spend some money and create their own forum. I then spent time researching the costs and wrote up what would need to happen to create a forum but they weren't interested. The fact is researching everything had made me interested in forums again and I wanted to see what it would be like starting from nothing. To show that it could work and after some encouragement from others I started WS with Bingo/JR Price.
I wanted to create a great forum that was well organised and full of quality discussions. At first we had a front page as well which was where the reviews and columns would go and we had a weekly poll as well. Everything started well with plenty of PWM members coming across but one month after it opened I went overseas for a month. When I returned nine posts had been made in the time I was gone and I was livid. I had to rebuild everything again and get the discussions going. It took time and after a few more months I was pretty close to throwing it in since the co-owner was frequently absent.
Talked it over with a few people and I decided that I needed help, since I was so close to throwing it all away, so I promoted the most active members that had shown great dedication to the forum. Deezy, Scott, Prodigy and Keith were all made s-mods and things started to pick up and I can't thank them enough for all they have done for the forum because honestly without them WS wouldn't be here. Then about a month later Dod came onboard as admin and made heaps of changes to improve the look and function of the forum. That is when things really started to move forward and the forum took off.
I had talked with Ben a couple times before the merge and it reached a point where we both thought it would be best if we merged our forums. It was a great success and it has been the best decision I made. Looking forward to the forum getter better and stronger in the coming years. I like that we have managed to still maintain good discussions without too many trolls on the board. Not having a Rants/Uncensored Rage section is a key because I saw it take down the two previous forums I staffed on.
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