Web forums can be very difficult to get started, but very nice once you get them started.One technique webmasters use to get web forums off the ground is to post a large number of "starter" messages to the forum. This makes the forum look active and entices other posters to join in the fun.
This can be a lot of work, so companies have sprung up to help webmasters through this effort.
These paid forum posting companies will post hundreds or thousands of unique on-topic posts to your web forum.