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New users are killing the forum.

Distributing games: the worst section ever. I mean, it used to be good, until somebody decided to ditch their job of moderating it at all. Straight to a list of problems:

No moderation: any topics that are dumb, useless and against forum rules stay alive for days
Nobody updating the pinned topics
13 year olds asking questions similar [...]

Promoting a freeware game will be different from promoting a commercial game - the most important thing, I think, is to be aware of who your target audience is and to make sure they see your message.
Forum signatures are a great place to advertise since it is essentially free space, and if you are an [...]

Marketing your site is quite obviously one of the most important aspects of running a website. Put simply, what use is a site without any visitors? The Game Maker Community lets members promote their sites in their forum signatures and by creating a topic about it in the Website Announcements section of [...]