Gone are the days when people remained anonymous and chatted to glory only to fool or end up getting cheated. Here are forum communities which are making profound effect over friendship paradigm. I happen to analyze factors and reason for their success and how strong is the bonding make online.
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Search engines are more often relying on Topic title. A vigilant Moderators need to convert the generalized topic titles with the content specific topic titles to get good search engine ranking and also for better searching at forums by members. Read the rest of this entry »
Those starting a new community giving access to Personal messaging system may be counter productive and members tend to bypass the forum channels, if there is a week community ethics. How often it is that as Administrator/Moderator your spend countless hours in explaining them to post the queries at the forum rather than sending an email or Personal Message to them. You might also see some forum administrator explicitly putting a tag line into their signature “Do not PM me, your PM would be ignored”. I think it is a serious issue most of the forum managers face at one point of time. Read the rest of this entry »
There are many problems that may crop up in your forum after a point of time. Members may be facing difficulty in registration, your forum policy has changed but you have not updated in the automatic email sent on new registration, the validation email is not sent out e.t.c My Suggestion is to register a new dummy account say after 500 registration in the forum and test run the whole process of registration acting as a New Member. Read the rest of this entry »