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I'm not sure what you mean by "I see lifehack as a site that brings different blogs together". The content is all original, though the writers almost all blog elsewhere.
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I mean primarly post like:
33 Productivity Boosters - Lifehack.org 117 Creative Ways for Students to Pay for College - Lifehack.org 88 Tips for Succeeding in College - Lifehack.org
I could be that you changed a bit from doing this kind of featured posting to more orginal content, and I haven't updated my image of lifehack.org.
If lifehack doesn't understand itself that way any more 5) is maybe not the way to go.
A lot of forum I have taken part in in the past have been created by drawing together multiple influential people that were into the topic to create a place where the topic can be discussed.
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Thanks again -- you've given me a lot to think about, and even if I can't swing all that, hopefully it will inspire some new ideas that I *can* convince the rest of us to take up.
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In general I would recommand not to implent one idea at a time but to first wait and gather ideas and afterwards implent them shortly after another to create a certain type of momentum that is self sustaining, maybe 30 active people who write >1 post/day.
If you don't have those people I think a forum loses activity day by day. On the other hand the forum wins activity day by day if you have those 30 active people.
That makes it difficult to improve the forum step by step, because improvement that don't reach the critcal momentum don't help long term.
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Most importantly, I want folks to hae a sense of connection with each other and with us, the writers. I'm wondering, though, f the forums become the place where people comment, what is the difference between having active commenters and an active forum? It's the unique stuff, the "I have a question" stuff and the "hey, this is interesting" stuff that seems to me the reason behind a forum -- is there a case for integrating the two functions (commenting and original threads)? Is it simply a matter of not splitting people's attention?
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1) A lot of the people post also elsewhere in the forum once they decided to join the community. Making an introductionary post forum supports this.
2) You can look for other posts of the person. Maybe someone find the things that commenter X says were interesting. At the moment it's difficult to find the other comments of that person.
3) Nobody ownes his name. I can comment using the same name other people used to comment.
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I think that's what you're saying in #5 (though I'm unclear -- are you saying "their" forum section would connect back to their own sites?)
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Rudius Media Message Board is an example of a forum that connect multiple single blogs together (even when those blogs are all from authors of the same publisher).
Those blogs are to small to have a own seperate forum but a subforum works.