Spam is always a big problem for forums; health is one of the most spammed topics. No wonder health forum is the target of all kinds of spammers, and it's not easy to keep a health forum clean.

If a member comes here only for promoting websites, he will be banned immediately to save both his and my time. People who post for links only create non-sense posts, which is very annoying and bothers every one. These kind of posts look legitimate but if you look into them, you will find they...

Google seems to like this forum a lot. Recently, I just noticed some great rankings such as 'natural health forum' and 'health forum'.

Forum Stats

• Threads: 2,827
• Posts: 15,743
• Members: 947

Goal
10 new members and 100 new posts per day.

'just me' posted the 15,000th post today.

Natural Medicine Talk Statistics Threads: 2,720
Posts: 15,000
Members: 873
Active Members: 120

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Dec 11, 2008
Threads: 2,408
Posts: 13,070
Members: 628
Active Members: 59

It seems very hard to keep a forum growing (active members), this forum has nice traffic, over 300 visitors daily from search engines alone, but they don't convert. Most people seem to enjoy reading rather than posting. Well, I can understand that.

Threads: 2,366
Posts: 12,836
Members: 612
Active Members: 61

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Members: 522
Active Members: 86

• Threads: 2,028
• Posts: 11,025
• Members: 470
• Active Members: 63

Statistics on May 27th:

• Threads: 2,007
• Posts: 10,757
• Members: 460
• Active Members: 66

Recently many spammers came to this board, most gave up after they found signature was disabled for new members, it's still quite annoying.