Has anyone used a service to have folks post on your site to boost your level of "activity"?

I think that it might be a good way to jump start my forums since I just officially opened them and I have yet to get anything but a couple of 'intro' posts.

Anyone have any experiences with this type of service? Or possibly some suggestions as to what steps I should take.

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I've never purchased post or anything like that
I did use postfusion over at adminfusion on locoforum back in the day
AdminFusion - PostFusion
you might want to check it out

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You can do the PostFusion system if you're active on the internet or post on other sites frequently that have it installed.

I personally would never pay for posts, as most won't be worth the 10 cents you probably paid for it, and written in some poorly translated english

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why dont you team up with a dozen other forum owners and each agree to make 2 posts in everyones forum per day.

Interesting idea Steve. I've already started to register and post in other Disney-related forums to get some visitors going, but when a visitor looks at the fact that I only have 7 members and not much posting going on, they see it as a 'dead' forum. It's a catch 22.

Brandon, thanks for the link. I'm going to look into AdminFusion this afternoon and hopefully it will help.

David, I had heard about the "poorly translated English" thing and asked a couple of the services about that. Lots of them are now using only (or 90% or better) posters from here in the States and in the UK to try and help with that issue. One service tends to use a lot of stay at home Mothers which would be great for my site. That's why I was considering it.

But please...you guys have MUCH more knowledge about what has worked for you in the past and I need all the info and help I can get! So, thanks for the comments thus far!

If anyone else has some feedback on the subject, please let me know.

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Well for the member statistics problem if click link in my sig you can see what I have done..I removed the stats and the memberlist..That way no one can see how many members I have..After doing so registration increased a good bit...Though no on is really active but its a start...

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Oh, that's right! Thanks for reminding me Blake. I think that I asked how to go about doing that in another thread here on vBulletinsetup but lost track of the thread. Can you let me know how to go about removing that information?

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Well for some reason when i try post vb code it no let me even in tags LOL

[HOW TO] Remove the "Community Forum Statistics" - vBulletin Community Forum

Took me bit find a post to show how..But there you go

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Thanks again Blake!

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Arny....have you considered part of your problem may be in the registration process? i have just been trying to register to help you out with a few posts and i cant get past the spam thing