Introduction to SMBX Forum AdministrationA SMBX forum is a place where SMBX users can post content and discuss different subjects. A SMBX forum is spearheaded by an administrator, a few global mods and level judges.
You would have authority over other users. You would be able to humiliate them, mock them, push them around and eventually ban them for no reason at all. Secondly, you would have control over a large part of the community. Thirdly, you would be respected by users. |
Running your forum
Running a SMBX forum is not an easy task. There are a lot of things to do; it's considerably difficult to obtain new members, but if you have enough patience and put effort into it, you might be successful.
- Be a good administrator; self-explanatory. A good administrator is either extremely strict or stupidly tolerant; it's your choice. Being a bad administrator is literally impossible, keep that in mind.
- Gather members. To gather members, join a popular SmbX forum and send Private Messages to users asking them to join your brand new forum. For better results, pretend to decompile SmbX and announce a new version, exclusive to those who join your forum.
- Give perks to your users. This is a long-lasting tradition to the SmbX administrator family. In order to maintain users in your forum, you need to give them a sense of power and authority; that way they'll most likely decide to stay, since everyone loves being an authority.
- Set up a Mario theme. Everyone adores small Mario icons and trims; more users guaranteed.
- Set up a lot of groups. Setting up a lot of groups and adding some users to them will make the users think that they're outstanding in the community.
- Create many subforums. Although you might not need any of those, it's always good to have just in case.
- Run community comics. Have a series of community comics running in the forum. Feature as many users you can into the comic; it'll make them feel special.
- Be a dumb shit. Although this is not how a decent administrator should behave, sometimes it's necessary. Mock other users like an autistic kid; users will take your side and you'll quickly gain respect.
- Censor any group which criticizes your qualities as a leader. Seriously, you don't want any kind of bad propaganda ruining your reputation.
- Don't enforce the rules too often. Remember, give your users their own space; everyone needs to be a retard once in a while.