Hello,
I've been reading through the forum topics trying to understand how to do this but can't seem to grasp it.

What I want to do is make a site, where all the members belong to a certain fanbase. For example, so that all the members on my site are fans of the same author etc.

I've tried going into "member criteria", adding a new filter at the top and clicking "approve and save", but I can't see what difference that makes to my site. I don't see that filter anywhere on the registration page... it's still just the normal registration and there is nowhere that a new member has to select my added filter.
What am I missing? How do I make my site exclusive to my niche?

Thanks in advance for any help you may give.

The registration page stays the same and has nothing to do with your filter. What you should see is that the filter works with the results, if you have a site about "London dating" and you made a filter that requires people to be from the greater london area, that the results are only with people from London.

From what I understand that you are writing here, you could not have a filter for something like "Twilight fans", one thing about filters is that you cut out a lot of other people, the more filters the less people. The filters come into place when people search. Contact Lisa and ask her if you can have something specific but from what i know you can do filters for handicapped, lifestyles (gay, straight) black, asian but not for anything else. Correct me if I am wrong

Thanks Patsy and nurijk

So what about these people that have sites like "Ladies in suits" and "men who eat tangerines" (ok, I made that one up ) ?
How do they filter those types of site?
And why is there an "add new filter" field on the member criteria page where you can type a filter name in yourself?

I thought that the "add new filter" field was for naming your filter, but it could also be for adding several filters at once? I am not sure, since I've only used the filter for country/city/region filtering. There are a lot of filters available so maybe there's a uniform fetish option available to make a site called "Ladies in suits".

So, I had a similar question and my rep indicated that you cannot create that kind of specific niche criteria. Which is a shame, because that is my whole intention. Is this really the correct information?

That was my reason for joining up as well... to create a specific niche site. But there's not really any point creating a site designed to cater for a specific niche, if when a customer joins up and searches for fellow members they are then given a list of general people that have no interest in that niche.

Hi Guys,

You can do this - just go to Member Criteria section of your site management panel and set the filters up.

Regards,

Thanks Lisa,
Could you explain though exactly how I would set up my new filter?
For example, if I wanted my site to cater exclusively to fans of "Harry Potter" (for example), what would I do?
I go to "member criteria", then what? Do I just type "Harry Potter fan" in the box that says "filter name" under "add new filter" ?
And then click "approve and Save" ?

What does that actually do to my site?

Thanks,
Gorbag

Dear Gorbag,

In your case we would need to add an extra criterion to Interests for you. Please let me know if you are serious about this niche and lets discuss!

Regards,

Wow. When I joined singlescrowd, it cost $750 to get a white label site like your own niche set up.

Hi Stephen,

It not about setting up a white label site, its about adding one more interest to the general list so we could pre-populate the niche.

Regards,