Do your connections from admin forums help you when starting a new forum?

[Bawse]

When starting a new forum, does your past connections from admin forums help you grow your forum?

I started a poker affiliate forum a few days ago, and we already got 5 members who I either know from my poker forum, or other admins/forum owners. One of my new members recently started a new crypto poker site, and they found the site from a discussion on my forums.

 

[AWS]

If you post about it on the other forums you have you'll get members from there. Getting them from other admin forums works too as long as you contribute on the admin site. If a forum opens in a niche I'm familiar with and can contribute I'll usually join.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Yeah, I can usually get members from admin forums because a lot of my forums relate. I can usually get them for the off topic one as well. It's the other more niche forums that are harder to get members from admin forums but in all honesty, I don't really target folks on there.