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    How many staff members does your community have?

    I am the sole admin and mod on both my sites, but I really need to get at least one more moderator on board. What type of compensation to you...
    Post by: Octer, Dec 26, 2013 in forum: Member and Staff Management
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    Cerberus SEO 101 Guide - Search Engine Opitmization

    Thank you very much for this guide! I have a question regarding duplicate content. I have this.COM and this.NET that both point to the same site....
    Post by: Octer, Dec 24, 2013 in forum: SEO, Traffic and Revenue
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    What do you know about Bitcoins?

    I find it really hard to take that one seriously, but what the heck, I might as well jump on this just in case it really does take off.
    Post by: Octer, Dec 24, 2013 in forum: Water Cooler
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    Traffic from Made for Pinterest Images

    Thank you for this tip MyGibbs! I have not had any success with Pinterest, and not for a lack of trying. However, none of the images were made...
    Post by: Octer, Dec 24, 2013 in forum: SEO, Traffic and Revenue
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    Huge "General Discussion" Threads

    I keep them because the long term users seem to really like them. Even when there isn't much going on on the regular threads, the old users will...
    Post by: Octer, Dec 24, 2013 in forum: Managing Your Online Community
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    Laposte.Net Spam

    Thanks for the info Micah. I'll ban that email domain from registrations.
    Post by: Octer, Dec 22, 2013 in forum: Managing Your Online Community
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    Stable vs. RC.

    I never run RC on live sites. It is just too risky - let the other admins be the final bug testers while your site runs without issue on a stable...
    Post by: Octer, Dec 22, 2013 in forum: Web Development and Programming
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    Organizing Your Forum: Subforum or main page?

    I'm not a fan of sub forums either Micah, for the same reason as you. Deciding on the "tree" for your site is always a tough decision, but...
    Post by: Octer, Dec 22, 2013 in forum: Managing Your Online Community
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    What do you know about Bitcoins?

    I sure wish I would have jumped onto the bitcoin bandwagon a couple of years ago, but I was afraid it would be a fad. Now that it has taken a bit...
    Post by: Octer, Dec 22, 2013 in forum: Water Cooler
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    That feeling when you loose a domain name...

    Ouch. $1277 is a lot to pay for not reading emails. I have all my domains listed with 3 different providers. I have considered consolidating...
    Post by: Octer, Dec 22, 2013 in forum: Water Cooler
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    Do you ban members often?

    I would describe myself as a laid back admin - you can get away with quite a bit on my sites, but I won't stand for trolling. We had a member...
    Post by: Octer, Dec 5, 2013 in forum: Member and Staff Management
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    How close are you to your members?

    In smaller communities, it is very important for the site admin to have a "relationship" within the community. They don't have to know your real...
    Post by: Octer, Dec 5, 2013 in forum: Member and Staff Management
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    Know about any lesser known forum software?

    I ran a short term (1 year) event forum using http://vanillaforums.org/ - Loved it and would definitely use it again.
    Post by: Octer, Dec 5, 2013 in forum: Community Forum Software
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    Have You Ever had to Close Your Board for Bad Reasons?

    One of my sites is a small community of about 200 people. A flame war broke out so I game everyone a time out and shut the board down for 24...
    Post by: Octer, Dec 5, 2013 in forum: Managing Your Online Community
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    Personality Type

    Apparently, I am an idealist - INFP....just like Luke Skywalker. [attach]
    Post by: Octer, Dec 5, 2013 in forum: Managing Your Online Community