PDA

View Full Version : Community Forum Management


  1. What are your user titles?
  2. New SPAM Breakthrough
  3. How long did it take to get your forum where you wanted it?
  4. Getting the first post...
  5. Ever give a site away?
  6. Corporate/School filters
  7. Bugmenot - ever heard of it?
  8. How concerned should I be?
  9. Have you ever had your content stolen?
  10. Photobucket slideshow in profile tab
  11. Creating A Sleek, Informal Landing Page/Portal For Your Guests!
  12. Books about online communities... has anyone read these?
  13. Have forums been supplanted by social networking? Or are they strengthened by it?
  14. What was your latest milestone?
  15. Do you compensate your admins and mods?
  16. Members selling their accounts?
  17. Does everyone send birthday emails?
  18. Do you delete member's affiliate links on your forum?
  19. What donation mod do you use?
  20. using the ignore list
  21. What's the oddest forum topic you've ever seen?
  22. Small, medium, or large?
  23. Which is easier, starting a new forum or taking care of a busy one?
  24. Do you let your members veer off-topic?
  25. VPS and SSH
  26. Features from other forums you'd like to see on vBulletin?
  27. How much do you pay for hosting?
  28. Member Revolts?
  29. Is your forum your entire site?
  30. If you had to, what other forum software would you switch to?
  31. Do you allow guest posts?
  32. Favoritism
  33. What languages have you installed?
  34. Censorship
  35. Is Miserable Users for wusses?
  36. Reverse a ban?
  37. Under what circumstances would you read a member's private messages?
  38. What do you use your vBulletin for?
  39. Is email integration a good thing or a bad thing?
  40. How do you know when to quit?
  41. What do you do about "goodbye forever" threads?
  42. What is CrowdGather?
  43. Nintendo WII Raffle
  44. Ranks for my service dog forum?
  45. Post Contest with $75 in cash prizes
  46. What does your welcome header say?
  47. What's your busiest time of day/week?
  48. Best practices for taking over/merging existing forums?
  49. What's your least favorite part of owning a forum?
  50. Staff sections
  51. Share your horror story!
  52. How many admins/mods do you need?
  53. What extra profile fields have you added?
  54. Do you delete users awaiting email confirmation?
  55. Spinoff sites?
  56. "Moderator Handbook"?
  57. What do you do when a moderator is no longer active?
  58. Do you take applications for mods?
  59. Is there such a thing as a Flash game kit?
  60. How much time do you spend on your forums each day?
  61. View your site through the eyes of the color-blind
  62. What kind of avatar trends do you see on your forum?
  63. How long before someone replies to a thread on your forum?
  64. Do you have any "celebrities" (major or minor) on your forum?
  65. Do your members stay "invisible" when reading the forum?
  66. What got you interested in forums?
  67. What's the longest you've left your forum alone?
  68. What was the most users you've ever had online at once?
  69. Conversation killers
  70. Do your members welcome the newbies?
  71. How do you stay connected?
  72. Are you the top poster on your forum?
  73. Did you have a background in php/html before you started your forum?
  74. Do you use side columns? And what do you put in them?
  75. Do you have a testimonial thread?
  76. Post your stats!!
  77. Good signature limits?
  78. What is your major demographic?
  79. Multi-user household
  80. To introduce or not to introduce?
  81. Do you prune inactive members?
  82. Growing into your forum
  83. Do you get nervous when you haven't heard from your forum?
  84. What do you do when members die?
  85. Most creative forum?
  86. Has anyone gotten married after meeting on your forum?
  87. Latest pictures on forumhome
  88. Gender icons?
  89. Did you experience a summer slump?
  90. What was the single biggest traffic boost you ever got in one day?
  91. Do you offer buttons and banners for linking?
  92. Do your members discuss politics?
  93. Do you use different usernames on different forums?
  94. Have you ever donated to another forum?
  95. Do you have a "landing page"?
  96. How do you handle underage members?
  97. Do you delete your trash threads? or just hide them
  98. Admin schedule?
  99. Do you share your stats, keywords etc. with members?
  100. What makes your site better than your competitors?
  101. how do you go about finding partners?
  102. How many stored PMs do you allow?
  103. Best practices for hiring someone to do graphics work?
  104. How long does spam go undeleted on your forum?
  105. A word of caution
  106. Arguing a Mods Decision in Public?
  107. At what point do you reach "critical mass"?
  108. When Do You Start Banning?
  109. Walt Disney Boards is 4 months old!
  110. I just hit 6000 members tonight...
  111. What are some threads that get most replies?
  112. Forum Tournaments
  113. Do you ever "rate" threads on your forum? do you encourage your members too?
  114. What do you look for in an Webmaster Forum?
  115. What are you future plans for your forum?
  116. Need some advice
  117. Do you allow topics to be bumped?
  118. Are you an admin or mod on any forums other than your own?
  119. Super Members - Any Ideas?
  120. Contest prize
  121. Limit guest viewing?
  122. Do you allow animated avatars?
  123. Can ANYONE help? Dave? Need to cleanup html code.
  124. What are some tricks you have used to lure members back
  125. "National Delurking Day"
  126. Members who reply to New PM notification e-mails
  127. When expanding your online empire...
  128. Do you Mark all Forums Read on your forums
  129. vBulletin Glossary
  130. How do you manage your to-do list for web sites and forums?
  131. Do you enter contests on other forums?
  132. Titles for my clothing forum?
  133. [HINT] Welcome PMs and emails
  134. WDB wins an award! How about your sites?
  135. What are the best general conversation starters?
  136. Where do you put your donate button?
  137. Anyone have an Adsense revenue sharing forum?
  138. If a spammer fails to spam, is he really a spammer?
  139. 700 members every 24 hours
  140. Adsense Revenue Sharing
  141. Three strikes and you're out?
  142. What's your record for longest thread?
  143. Missed it by that much....
  144. vBulletin talks back :)
  145. Some alternatives to "forum" for your domain names
  146. do you have a favicon for your forum?
  147. animated favicons?
  148. New York Times article on trolls
  149. do you call people by their real names or their usernames?
  150. Where can I find good sound effects files for my FlashChat?
  151. Suggestion: use your calendar!
  152. Has owning a forum made you a better user on other sites?
  153. How would you kill someone else's forum?
  154. What skills do you need to succeed at forum ownership?
  155. What's your favorite vBulletin forum other than your own?
  156. What is your member to post ratio?
  157. What is your current "active" member percentage?
  158. Podcasting Do's and Dont's?
  159. When it all falls down?
  160. Help me come up with some better forum descriptions
  161. Do you have buy/sell section on your forum?
  162. What kinds of forum-related merchandise do you offer?
  163. How do you get people to blog?
  164. What's the most rewarding part of running a forum?
  165. What forum software were you running before you switched to vBulletin?
  166. Where do you see your forums in five years? Ten?
  167. Bad language
  168. Avoiding "us vs. them" mentality?
  169. How many more ideas do you have for new forums?
  170. What do you do with spam that's actually on-topic?
  171. Premium Member, Plus Member or Subscriber, etc.
  172. Who uses or like chat/shout boxes?
  173. Restricting things from new members?
  174. Widgets... post 'em if you got 'em
  175. What's your record for new members in one day?
  176. A thousand thanks
  177. Do your forum members have get-togethers and meetups?
  178. Forum-based games
  179. What was your biggest forum mistake?
  180. Members replying to notification emails
  181. Good place to find new sites for link exchanges
  182. Have you customized the emails that get sent by vB?
  183. Do your members say they're addicted to your forum?
  184. Do you do holiday templates?
  185. What would you do with your custom template if you win the posting contest?
  186. Throw me some feedbacks and suggestions
  187. Have a set goal of amount posting per day?
  188. getting your member to help you?
  189. how involved is TOO involved?
  190. How do you handle trolls
  191. Post your posting contests here!
  192. "Front page", or straight to forums?
  193. Forum Dying...
  194. Forum spamming going professional!
  195. How to instill community feeling in people?
  196. How do you entice people to make their first post?
  197. is it old members or new members who buy premium memberships?
  198. Allow moderators to view IP's?
  199. What perks do you give donors?
  200. Ranks for science forum?
  201. How to write an effective article! Great for the contest!
  202. How much money have in dumped into your board?
  203. What hacks are the best for tracking stats?
  204. I'm thinking about starting a newsletter....
  205. vB3.7.2 Upgrade - No Problemo
  206. PODCASTS: Do they bring your community closer together?
  207. Chat room - does it take anything away from your forum?
  208. Defecting Member wants content removed & Terms of Use
  209. Patrick O'Keefe - Managing Online Forums
  210. Banning Process
  211. Customize your messages
  212. Incentives/Gifts to "Active" Members....
  213. HOW-TO kill a forum
  214. Instant Email Notification - good or bad?
  215. Basic rules/guidelines for moderators
  216. How and How Often do you Communicate With Staff?
  217. Would like information/suggestions on staff