And if you make one and it's got a hell of a lot of traction, then it's possible that I'll consider promoting it to be a full forum.
I did this with the Bike Polo forum because it has enough people using it daily and it is evident that the community of polo players had a need for it.
I'm very happy to do similar if demand is proven over time*. I won't do it without being totally convinced though, and what convinces me is data... # of posts, # of threads, #of people participating, #of daily posts (constant interest in the forum), etc.
So start a group, do the marketing (word-of-mouth, events, instructional video's, etc), get people interested and using it... and then it's yours... you get your top level forum and you get to be the boss of it.
I would do this for any topic in which enough interest is evident.
And if you make one and it's got a hell of a lot of traction, then it's possible that I'll consider promoting it to be a full forum.
I did this with the Bike Polo forum because it has enough people using it daily and it is evident that the community of polo players had a need for it.
I'm very happy to do similar if demand is proven over time*. I won't do it without being totally convinced though, and what convinces me is data... # of posts, # of threads, #of people participating, #of daily posts (constant interest in the forum), etc.
So start a group, do the marketing (word-of-mouth, events, instructional video's, etc), get people interested and using it... and then it's yours... you get your top level forum and you get to be the boss of it.