i do forum work, and the local people that are normally on are no longer chatting.. what would be the best way the recruit more people and do you think a forum can be a work place, by creating chat room, payed members...ect?

what are your thoughts on this idea?

You want to pay the members, or have them pay you? lol

lol, im just getting the thoughts of the people online if a forum could become a work place, if people pay the admin they would get extra things, access to certain areas things like that... just ideas is what i need at the moment

Look for advertisers. People like to go to many forums. It would have to be something very special to pay for it.

these are just ideas for the future forum that im going to create....

so i am getting the public's ideas to give me more info so i have a good idea what to do when i start it or keep it up aswell, do you know any good recruiting ideas?

crash every site but yours.

If I had to pay for a forum I might consider, I dunno, reading a book or something. I'm poor and even if I wasn't I'd probably still be cheap...

you wont get many who would be willing to pay to use a forum. but you could do what some do, and offer extra features to those who are willing to donate to help keep the site running. those extra features could be something like more picture upload space than regular members get, bigger avatars than the regulars or different themes available to them. other than that you can put ads on your site to make money and help keep it going.

I don't recommend starting a forum solely for making money off of itself. You have to be interested and passionate about your forum and then when people see that enthusiasm behind it, they would be much more willing to join. There are a lot of ways to advertise the forum:
1)Google adsense/Yahoo ads
2)Text links
3)Sponsor ads
4)My space
5)Affiliate networks
6)Contests (example: the person with the most posts wins a prize, points, etc).

But don't oversell. No serious forum user wants to waist time sifting through ads just to share opinions with like minded people

can you see me behind all this crap?

I use forums as a workplace. I make good money doing it to. I didn't know this one existed until today.