Make the forums likely!

[bullsstamford]

Team Yale,

I would like to suggest a way to improve the activity and make the forums a lively place for students and adcom to exchange ideas..

Current format where every Question has to be moderated makes it more like a Email kind of response and wont encourage people logging at different time zones to participate with a quick response.

Instead of Moderating Every new post before it is posted, it would be better the moderation is done after the posting. Key word check and a limit of number of posts that can be posted from a user/Ip address can be done

Unless these changes are made, the forums doesnt serve all and applicants will loose interest..

Take a loot at the enormously succesful S2s happening at Wharton and one can see why is it so active , because it encourages participation
http://s2s.wharton.upenn.edu/wh-wharton

My intention is not to compare with another school forums but an effort to improve the interactivity on the forum

cheers
BullsStamford

[lmd]

Hi BullsStamford,

Thanks for your suggestion about the board. We've structured it in this way because we found that the board was getting clogged with a lot of useless spam. Now we can filter out the spam, thus making the board easier to follow.

Messages get posted fairly regularly, as the board is monitored by a different member of our admissions committee daily.

lmd