I created our Vendor Forums a few years ago after seeing a similar feature work well on another site. What I envisioned was a place where vendors would interact somewhat actively with members. Unfortunately, our vendor forums get very little traffic. Some in fact have not been posted by the vendor or a member in almost 2 years. A couple do get quite a bit of use, but most are quiet/dead. I'm thinking about a couple of things, and I'd like your input.
1) Delete vendor forums which have not been posted in for X period of time. Maybe 60 days?
2) Eliminate vendor forums completely. This would require that we:
The goal of the vendor forums was to make vendors feel welcome and included in our community while not having too much commercial content in the forums. If you can think of a better way to do that, please speak up!
1) Delete vendor forums which have not been posted in for X period of time. Maybe 60 days?
2) Eliminate vendor forums completely. This would require that we:
- relax the rules about vendors participating in the open forums to answer questions about their products
- provide a place for vendors to advertise specials, etc., and the For Sale forum probably isn't that spot