Community Manager Chat
Community Manager Chat
Discuss everything from running a community forum to broader webmaster topics like domains, hosting, and site maintenance.
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How do you handle a "ghost town" phase?
Started by Bright ·
How do you handle a "ghost town" phase?
That ghost town phase can break a very strong person mentally. You post a topic, refresh the page 20 times, nothing happened. Sometimes I purposely reply my own threads just to make the place look active. Consistency is the only thing that helped me because if you abandon the for...
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Paying for posts
Started by Shawn ·
Paying for posts
How do you feel about paying for forum posts?Have you ever done paid posting at all? If so, how much have you paid, and was it worth it?Do you think paid posters are deceptive to your real members at all?
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Illegal Activity on Forums
Started by Shawn ·
Illegal Activity on Forums
If you were to see acts of illegal actions on your forum, would you report it to law enforcement?Things like threats and stuff like that which serious enough to report.But alternatively, you could just ban the people and not report it. But some might feel a forum owner has an obl...
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Under 18 Members
Started by Shawn ·
Under 18 Members
Do you allow members who are under the age of 18 to be a part of your forum?If so, why?Facebook gets sued constantly because of safety issues for those under 18. Do you think forums are safe from those lawsuits? If you do, you should read the laws in your country as most countrie...
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Xenforo is starting to annoy me.....
Started by Smokey ·
Xenforo is starting to annoy me.....
I updated one of my add-ons since an update released last week and instantly got hit with a database error, so the update itself is botched and now i't’s in limbo since it initiated the update process but couldn’t finish.I’m seeing more and more reasons to migrate over to ForumSp...
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Premium Membership
Started by Shawn ·
Premium Membership
For those of you who offer a premium membership plan on your forum, what benefits do you offer?How do you make your premium membership stand out?How much do you charge?
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Most posts in one day
Started by Shawn ·
Most posts in one day
As the owner of your forum, what is the highest number of posts you’ve posted on the forum in one day?What’s your typical number each day?
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Dream about forums
Started by Shawn ·
Dream about forums
Here’s a rather interesting topic…Do you ever find yourself having dreams about forums?People dream about their work all the time. I know I do regularly.I’ve also dreamed about making new forums and those new forums becoming really successful.Have any of you had similar dreams?
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Forum changes might be bad
Started by Shawn ·
Forum changes might be bad
Do you think changing the theme, forum layout style, logo, features, and etc. is a great way to freshen up your forum?Or could it actually be a bad idea because most members don’t like change or don’t want to have to get used to a new process?In the past, I’ve seen a forum go fai...
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Are forums dying?
Started by Shawn ·
Are forums dying?
Controversial topic but always a fun one to see what everyone thinks.Some people say forums are a dying breed.What do you think?
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Do you like marketing?
Started by Shawn ·
Do you like marketing?
As a forum owner, I’m sure you know and realize that you have to also be a marketer to get your forum out there enough to grow.The question is: Do you like marketing enough to make it work for you?If you don’t like it, you’re likely not going to dedicate enough effort to making i...
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Why did you migrate from one forum platform to another?
Started by Kathy ·
Why did you migrate from one forum platform to another?
Why did you migrate from one forum platform to another?What things were missing from the first platform that the other had? Did expense play a part?
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What are some of your favorite events on your forums to get activity going?
Started by Kathy ·
What are some of your favorite events on your forums to get activity going?
What are some of your favorite events on your forums to get activity going?
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Success with re-opening a forum?
Started by Kathy ·
Success with re-opening a forum?
What success stories do we know about forums that closed and then re-opened? Is it rare? What makes it a success story?
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How do you find your first 100 members?
Started by Bright ·
How do you find your first 100 members?
I've been checking my small forum analytics and honestly it's not encouraging. You create threads, reply yourself sometimes, even share links on WhatsApp groups. I even boosted one post with $50 last month thinking it would attract crowd. It was just three people that registered...
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