Making the Forum Useful ...

[wirelessforever]

As a recommendation, it is always important to stay on topic. If you find any forum on the Internet that thrives, it does so because content is king.

Some posters forget that forums are not their playgrounds for their individual interests. Staying on topic and avoiding posting material that has no relationship with the theme of the forum is what keeps a forum vital and healthy. If forums become filled with blather and useless off-topic junk, the forum will falter and die.

If your interest is railroads, wine tasting, babysitting or scrapbooking, there is nothing wrong with that but this is not the place for those topics. This is a cell phone forum and the content should be about TMo and cell phones.

If everyone stays on topic, this can be a great new forum. If we don't, this place will become boring and useless.

[Matt]

Well there is the Get More section.

Get More (http://www.t-mobilesignal.com/forum/get-more/)
Talk about anything and everything not related to T-Mobile!

Off topic post/threads should stay in that forum.

I quite like the forum guidelines we have set up at SprintUsers. Sprint Users - Guidelines (http://www.sprintusers.com/guidelines/)

I am slighly biased, because I have been a member there for several years and am a moderator over there, but it could be a good start to some guidelines here. Which will be needed as membership grows.

Speaking of which, we are over 300 members now.

[Alex]

I believe it is important to stay on topic as well. However, I do feel that if someone does go off-topic, users should politely tell the user to get back on topic. Right now, a few users and I are working on the guidelines for T-MobileSignal.