I suggest vBulletin forum software @ vBulletin.com

This is the third duplicate thread you made.. knock it off please.

Such code is not available by default, but surely through vbulletin.org or by coding it yourself.

This is quite a read, so I've printed it and will go through it later. Nice of you to type it out. Good contribution.

Sounds like a good plan to me :)

You could mass email your members with 0 posts with an invite to introduce themselves. Then 3 months from now remove those who have been inactive for 6+ months.

Small tip: The trick with using promotion tools is to spread it.

If you have competitions, promotions, advertisements, and whatnot, spread it over months.

Thank you for the feedback, I hope more members post theirs soon!

Thank you for the tips (if you hit postcount x, you can get free advertisement on our site).. I like that and perhaps might just look into doing that one time!

You could make small fun competitions to gain more members. Like, 5000 reputation points if you refer a friend in March! Or, make 5 new productive topics or 10 new productive new post replies and...

Having a vb fan site it would be stupid to not allow others to link to their forum.
We do not tolerate advertisement, so we have a specific "featured forums" section where users can post their url...

Yes, I am a staff member on theadminzone.com too :)

It runs well because I do my best to run it optimized :) Yes, dedicated hosting is nice, but as the site is sponsored and not really needed, I don't think the sponsor would just want to put in more...

Are those 2x ide 7200 80gb hd's or sata or in raid setup?

Good idea! And thank you for letting me know how you do it.

Let's do that in private, yes. Sure.

Nice :)
Glad to year you won't be in trouble.
Backup can be an issue in a year from now when your site has doubled!

vBulletin.nl still runs on older shared hosting account but still pulls it all wonderfully.

Does your cron script only backup, or also archive?
I mean.. no use in having a backup of a hacked forum or corrupted database.
The backups I make are done like this:
...

Mass PM is perhaps a good solution, I don't use though. It gives the members a feeling of getting spammed frequently by unwanted msgs. And instead the important announcements are included or pointed...

I have a way to avoid that a little bit, and we are quite drastic with revoking accounts too. So hopefully it will work out.

Hey cscgal,

Thank you for inviting me back on the team. Hopefully I can help out in this forum and otherwise just whip me a little bit.

On many web sites the regulars get more chance of...

Hello fellow staff (and visitors),

I am Floris, male, 28 years old, come from the Netherlands and live together with my wife Martine and our cat Knuffel in an apartment.

Just wanted to say...

Does your community, blog, web site uses announcements (either globally or per section) and for what cause?

Do you limit it to a day, week or month, months or year(s), or are they there always?
...

Planning on building a community, be it in the form of a forum or web chat or blog, and planning on being big? Do you invest in shared hosting until you can't hold it any longer, or do you invest in...

We are about (inside info , don't leak!) to give out free forwards for vbulletin fans - to our vbulletin.nl regular members. Unfortunatly I can't say much more about this at this time, but the plan...

Hello there,

Do you use a unique avatar or downloaded one you can share with us? Do you have an avatar pack you can share with other members here so we can setup a pre-set of avatars for our own...

Everybody knows that running a forum is easy and hard.

The easy part is installing the software and seeing it work in your browser. Your database is small and it slowly grows during time as you...

Hi there,

We currently offer a professional import/export system called vBulletin ImpEx which allows users to move from their forum software to vBulletin - it comes with a import script for...

For a new member or almost new member, having things done like in this article on my site, might be usefull :)

http://www.vbulletin.nl/community/showthread.php?t=2687

Maybe you have some use...

vBulletin version 3 has a quick registration form as default.
The admin can pre select the default options and setup required fields (if any are needed)
But a user can enter a user/pass and email...

If you have the content of your forum active, users will be provoked the sign up and participate.
The next trick is to get even better happenings going on for regular members to keep them regular...

It depends on my mood and means for participation.

If I want to catch up and find out what is going on right now, I goto the portal.
If I just want to process older threads and stay uptodate, I...

If you have 1 online user and 100 guests online, I'd suggest allow users to sign up without email verification. But if it is a 50/50 situation, I don't think it will be a problem really. I even think...

Hi there,

You have a nice question. Having a forum as a web site or as part of your total web site is a great idea to get customers or friends to return to your site. It drives instant traffic...