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Got a real site sponsor today... gave the $$$ to the staff

Finally!....it took long enough for my main site to get a real sponsor, (i have another board with multiple sponsors) My main site isn't easily sponsorable Anyway i gave the money to the staff, seemed...

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Seasonal Logos/Headers

Who all runs seasonal headers and logos? View attachment 53301

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Future Features Coming to Forums

As I've watched Google develop the Chrome browser it certainly appears that their plan is to make it so the browser will do about as much as a mobile app will do. This possibility is exciting to me...

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Taking your forum to the next level....

Has anyone else looked at their forum and thought "How can I take this to the next level?" What did you decide in the end?

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A Larger Question

Im hoping someone can help me. I own and operate a larger forum in our niche. We are a little over 6 million posts and going. Recently, we decided to upgrade Vbuleltin from 4 to 5 and add the mobile...

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What do you think are the biggest mistakes made by forum administrators/staff...

Talking about other forums you might be a member of - and since we're all staff/forum owners here - what are things other forum owners/staff members do that make you wince, or you feel is a big no-no...

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Merging two active forums

The goddess of fortune is smiling at me - I'm taking over the ownership of another forum in my niche! The new forum is smaller in terms of posts, but has a better domain name. (More on-topic, better...

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Moderate avatars?

Curious what other forum admins think. We have seen avatars of bin laden and hitler, among others. Would you moderate? If so what would you say to the member? Do you have a rule that specifies against...

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Designed for friendships? or friendships happen organicly?

Hi All, I've been debating making my own community for a bit and I've dabbled in a few things. Some took off, others didn't.. but this is what I'm coming across in my day-to-day adult life. I have a...

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John Titor Joined The Site

https://www.mymilitia.com/forums/topic/61784-ltc-john-titor-ii/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor

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Rule Lawyers

I see these very occasionally, but less often these days than I used to. They're people who like to pore over a site's rules scrutinising it carefully for loopholes or to complain about it being...

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Anti-spam Tricks

I won't reveal all of my tricks as a true magician never reveals their secrets, but I've thought up some ideas which could mess with the pesky little buggers. Use CSS to selectively make labels appear...

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Congrats on TAZ being no. 1 on google for Admin Forum

View attachment 53335 Interesting that the top links are Forum Software, Forum SEO, XenForo and Rank/Badges. Seems admins are very interested in ranks and badges? Where's my badge? Now I want a badge....

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Leveraging likes

This is something I learned partly from Jeff Atwood, but it is is often good to give members some sort of positive feedback when they make good contributions or even something as encouragement when...

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Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if their websites are not...

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-07/blind-person-dominos-ada-supreme-court-disabled The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and business groups that said they represented 500,000 restaurants and...

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Ever see a declining forum *really* turn around? How?

"Message boards are dying". We've all heard that. On most message boards I've been active on, including the one I run, traffic is down quite a bit from the glory days of the mid-2000s. Same thing with...

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BIG Problem: Photobucket Just Broke Billions of Photos Across the Web

https://petapixel.com/2017/07/01/photobucket-just-broke-billions-photos-embedded-web/ Since 2003, the popular photo hosting service Photobucket has been letting users upload and host images for free on...

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Gmail email bounces

Forum notification emails (new topics, new PMs etc) to members using Gmail are occasionally being bounced back, this is new for me as Gmail never usually has problems... is anyone else suddenly getting...

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Giveaways: How free stuff can increase engagement

It don’t take much, maybe its just tapping into the human Psyche .. something for nothing is just too irresistible. Giveaways and proper promotion can get people to join your site and make that first...

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Moderating a community with AI & automated actions

In corporate environments AI is quickly advancing and automating tasks that previously needed manual work by humans and even skilled professionals. I see AI popping up in many software applications....

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