Key Tips to grow a good sense of community

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Actively participate in your community. Or, have a team that does that for you.

Everybody has already suggested about content so I am not going there.

Create strong guidelines for your forum. Like how posts can be, how many links or no links in your posts you will be allowing etc. Spammers are of many kind. And now-a-days there are myriad number of ways that they will find to spam your forums.

The most dangerous kind is the real human spammers. They post real articles. But inside it there will be a link or promotion "Word" somewhere. In order to find and get rid of it you have to manually read the article.