I read an article today that made me wonder if I've been going about moderating all wrong. Instead of stopping members from arguing amongst...
Do your mods know what to do if an emergency arises and you're not there? I'm not just talking about server issues, but also member problems like...
If your members logged onto your forum on their birthday, what kind of greetings would they get? Would it be automated from the forum software,...
I confess, I generally prefer templates that make heavy use of graphics; my theory is that I want my forums to be kind of an immersive experience....
Some admins do it just for the love of the topic, others hope to get recognition or career advancement, still others hope to make a living off...
For quite some time I've wanted to try selling at least part of my ad inventory directly to advertisers, and just use AdSense to fill in any...
It's no secret most forum owners will create a bunch of sockpuppet accounts and have them all talk to each other in order to get the place going....
I started giving out custom titles to some admins and members I wanted to honor, but now it's starting to get out of hand; everyone wants a custom...
My next project is going to be a forum for the city I live in, and though I've got some general ideas on what it should look like, I'm still...
I bought Jelsoft's blog add-on for one forum, and though it hasn't really been used much I'm not sure yet what I'll do when vB switches over to...
How many more forum ideas do you have that you haven't had the opportunity to build yet?
I recently took over a political forum, which seemed like a good idea at the time. I feel that the original owner misrepresented it though; all...
I think I may have been banned from a forum (I'm not sure... it isn't saying I'm banned, just that I don't have permission to post) because I...
I'm not at the point yet where I need to get my own server, but I'd like to someday when I have the money. What skills will I need for managing...
Do you have a subforum dedicated to buy/sell/trade or classified ads section? Do you use a mod or script to run it or just a regular forum?
I have several domain names that I eventually want to have forums on, but haven't yet had the money or time to set up the software, customize the...
I believe most forum scripts just don't display any avatar unless one is specifically chosen, but that drives me nuts because then the posts look...
I've been using a shell script to take a backup of each forum at night, but when it comes to "the last mile" of the backup process, that's where...
One fine day I decided to do some serious updating of a forum/directory site, adding about 90 links to the directory, plugins to the forum,...
That's a serious question: I really don't understand why some admins get upset over posting in old threads, when it's relevant. The point of a...
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