Review my gaming forum, please! (GamingBay)!

What is GamingBay?
GamingBay began in August 2010, and have gone quite far. Our aim is to provide a high quality forum for everybody. Even though the forum is based on gaming, it doesn't mean we don't allow discussions about a different topic! Our forum can be your home! You can play games, read our blog, earn points and prizes, and much, much more. The theme is custom made and designed for our forum only. I am sure you will love the theme.

What can I do there?
Loads of stuff! These include but are not limited to:

• Playing in our arcade where you can compete with other members for the highest score!
• Earn 'GBCash' by posting and doing stuff around the forum! With this you can purchase awards, and join our Legendary usergroup if you become truly dedicated!
• Earn awards. There are a list of awards on the forum. These distinguish yourself from other members and in return, you will look more trusted!

Why should I join?
Other than meeting great new people and having fun, there are heaps and heaps of reasons on why you should join! Rest assured that you will not experience spam on our forum. Our moderators are dedicated and try their absolute best to keep our community immaculate. It doesn't mean they're not fun! All the staff, including I, are involved in member discussions. We will try out best to accommodate and assist you in any problems. We love games as much as you!
Once registered, ALL ads will be removed as well as the annoying message. You will receive a nice introduction in an attempt to make your stay at GamingBay extremely enjoyable!
There is only one way to find out for yourself. Simply check out our forum by clicking here!

If you have any feedback on our forum, please post below. It will be greatly appreciated!

Gaming Forums

 

The logo and the theme is very nice.Just put good contents

 

nice domain, and i saw lot of adsense

 

Ads will be removed after registering.

Glad you like it!

 

Any more reviews?

 

Nice color combination
Nice graphics
Good stats for a startup

It looks kinda empty when you open most of the posts, try to have more posts with good content within rather than one line posts. They look like you are self promoting the posts to improve the numbers.

Everything else is great! All the best budd.
Cheers, Josh

 

Thanks a lot, but I'm not making all the posts.

 

Design is good and I really liked your site.

 

Very nice theme and graphics, good job. Has it been live for long?

 

Since August. Read the thread

 

I actually did, but must have glanced straight past the first few lines as it seemed more like a promotion thread rather than asking to review your site!!

 

Great forum, I think all game gossip makers should come here. It's really great. Nice graphics. Good looking forum. Keep it up.

 

Oh okay, haha.

Thanks a lot Prclicks. Glad you like it!

 

It looks great. Your community and content is growing, the design is good and navigation fine.

The one thing I would say I really dislike and I strongly suggest you remove is the floating prompt to register. You need to give your new visitors the chance to view your content before they'll decide to register and this is very, very distracting. More than that, users who have previously registered won't like having to log in every time they want to lurk.

Personally I don't think you need to remove your ads; they're well placed and not detrimental to your content and you deserve to make some money for your work.

 

Hi, thanks for your reply.

Hmm, I'll think of removing that. I admit, it's pretty distracting. But it's just like an 'incentive' to sign up!

 

The only thing that will prompt users to register is quality discussion that they want to be part of. Personally I don't think people care that much about advertising, as long as it's not flashing, making mosquito noises etc.; those who do care use adblock. Good luck!

 

Okay then, thank you for your help!

 

Anymore reviews?

 

By the way, how are the new forum tabs?

 

As said above, the only thing that disturbs me is the register pop up...

About the site, well, from what i can see, looks nice, the colors are nice, so it feels like a place i would like to browse.