[social-media] Forum Topics

I own a website and in next two weeks I'll be launching a forum for the site. To promote the forum I have decided to have some contests on the forum. Do you have any forum contest ideas?

Do you delete unactive members who havent logged in for a couple of months?

how much time it takes to build a forum with decent registered members? i own a webmaster forum. Need some advice!

hello i going to start a new forum , and i don't know how to get more traffic!!!!!!!!!!!

Traffic always goes way down for us on weekends, but it's been super low these past few days. Is this a holiday weekend or something, or just a crash after a really good September?

I was just wondering how those of you with large communities handle site searches? With very large forums, even MySQL fulltext isn't good enough, nevermind the search feature built into software like vBulletin or phpBB. Anyone play with [url]www.sphinxsearch.com[/url] or something similar? Or are we all switching to Google's CBE …

Hi. I got this forum right, with a good number of registerd members, covering ICT disucssions etc. Now we've put together an editorial team that writes columns, articles, reviews etc. On the other hand i got moderators who are moderating the forum. I got an idea of creating a section …

I seem to have a lot of guests popping in and out but very little of them seem to join. Any recommendations as to what I may be doing wrong ?

Hi, I am in a lot of social networks and they all seem to use the same script just tweaked a bit. You can add your contacts from your emails straight from the site, and you can "connect" with friends. I have looked at these sites multiple times and it …

Hi, I want to know the benefits of online community. please tell me.

Hello, I want to build a community portal for my neighborhood and need help. Where can I find books, tutorials or examples on how to build your own portal? Thanks a mil Joseph

I need help to grow my naruto community- I have lots of guests at random times, but they don't sign up. I've even mad e a guests corner where they can post and ask about the features, etc. How can I get the guests persuaded to register. I heard about …

i run a forum for visually impaired people using a phpbb2 based forum. iv had nothing but nightmares with accessibiliyt. i finally managed to remove the highly inaccessible (and possibly ilegal) evil dancing letter verification code and replaced it with the 'answer the simple question' verification tool. the dancing letters …

Hi folks, new to blogging and looking to install WP 2.6. My Goal (and how-to needed please): - make a new Wordpress site look like a business site using any theme I want if possible. The theme I wish to use this the popular Fresh Theme by Woothemes. So I …

I also would like to know how to drive traffic to my on line sites being a novice I find it a jungle out there and would love some strong advice as basic as it me be it will be useful. So shared knowledge is always a gem as we …

i need to knowhat else to get after i install the phpbb3 please. i am really lost here

Hello I wondered if anybody could tell me how to show the stats of torrents I have on my site,you know just basic information, seeders,leechers,health...I have been searching for days and nobody will talk to me about it, any help you could give would be appreciated...Thankyou

Hey guys i recently opened a multi topic forum and today came this spammer who makes account after account and spams the hell out of my forum. He leaves links to democracyforums.com. Since Im new to this, can anybody tell me some ways to stop him and other spammers, or …

What software or service would you recommend to start a social forum? I already own the domain name. Thank you.

Is it true that we can get more traffic on our site through virtual community.

My forum design has been finalized, but am confused about hosting. I have 3000+ friend circle on net and they all are going to join as well as be active on the forums. One of the forums is based on a particuly educational board and more than 1000 stutents are …

I'm not sure if I'm posting in the correct forum or not, but I am looking for some tech or geeks to help me make the best of my forum. I would like to get some new members and also a moderator/admin as the staff I have at the moment …

im trying to get my url in search engines so more people join. how do you?

I am looking to place some contextual ads on my site (ones where when you hover over a certain word, they show an ad) Do you think this will put members and potential members off? And is it worth the money, do you make much off contextual ads? I am …

I got my first dosage of pharmacy spammers, and they came from an email address with the .ru prefix. This made me ask, what email addresses should I ban from registering? I dont want to get to deep with banning things like GMail and Hotmail

I can't manage to get many new members, can anyone help me or give me some tips?

How can I encourage more members to join a website for webmasters, and freelancers? It's hard.

I got a problem I got my own forums but is hard to get members any ideas how to get members

well, I received my tenth spam post in a single day The software xRumer, Puts it all there, its a fast spambot I downloaded the software and it came back with [QUOTE]Result: captcha recognized;activation code was sent: "requires validation";[/QUOTE] So, there we go, an old fashion trick at making sure …

My forum is just a month old and our new members numbers never stop increasing, but my biggest worry are spammers which make up to 10%. These guys are just too clever for me, i keep banning them but they keep coming back with a different IPs and host names …