Currently, from what I tried in creating a forum (reserving a forum) it asks for 10 STEEM.
Gut feel, 1 STEEM is enough for me to start my own forum and then just add to it for further customizations.
A monthly premium subscription could be another option for premium features, just like you said, this may need tweeking with the numbers and just suggest to go ahead with what you have in mind right now and just adopt based on feedback. But for now, the 1 STEEM creation fee feels reasonable enough.
But if we are to aim for mass adoption, could be another. You may opt to postpone the creation fee until it gets massive adoption. So for now, let's start with 1 STEEM for forum creation, just to act as a layer of filter for spams. Then I like the idea of same forum but different moderation methods.
Currently, from what I tried in creating a forum (reserving a forum) it asks for 10 STEEM.
Gut feel, 1 STEEM is enough for me to start my own forum and then just add to it for further customizations.
A monthly premium subscription could be another option for premium features, just like you said, this may need tweeking with the numbers and just suggest to go ahead with what you have in mind right now and just adopt based on feedback. But for now, the 1 STEEM creation fee feels reasonable enough.
But if we are to aim for mass adoption, could be another. You may opt to postpone the creation fee until it gets massive adoption. So for now, let's start with 1 STEEM for forum creation, just to act as a layer of filter for spams. Then I like the idea of same forum but different moderation methods.