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 | Has anyone noticed disabling email activation upon registration resulting in a significant increase in new member activity? |
| | Hi, Can anyone help with this? I would like to be able to add graphic banners or images in the outgoing welcomemail body sent to new registrants on the vBuleetin forum... Any ideas appreciated... Regards. |
 | I would be really interested in what other people think of this forum. It is a really great easy to use forum and is totally free. I would also be interested to see how people have used it. So heres mine. << url snipped to comply with forum policy - … |
| | Would you pay to advertise your forum? |
 | Just found this site - very nice. Hopefully some of you guys n girls will be able to offer some userful advice (especially if you've built your own community site already). Some of my work collegues and myself (we work in a small IT departmen) found ourselves becoming disallusioned with …  |
| | hi i used to work with ipb for along time but i thinking to move to vb but i found that theres to versions of vb 3.0.x series and 3.5.x can anybody tell me wot is the difference pls ? |
| | Do you allow political and religious debate in your forum? A lot of people I know don't, but in my two forums it seems to get members really excited and causes lots of new posts/threads/ and perhaps even members. Sure it makes some members offended, but it also keeps most … |
| | How many forums is too many? Can you validate having 100+ forums if every one of them is at least getting a few posts per day? |
| | As a Marketer I have found my short foray into the fuzzy world of background programming confusing. I do not know what to ask for. Bah, bah, bah. Thanks Dani! Anyway, I am building a community--- in that community I need a wysiwug blog/journal for paid subscribers and a way … |
| | I am doing a little research on which forums are usually used by the average Joe. :o |
| | How important is keeping in contact with your members via email? |
| | im thinkin bout startin up a webpage an i need some help running it tryin to get it on line an startin it up i hadn't figure out the new fourms our ne thing im a new learner an i need some help ne one interrested in this project ill … |
| | [COLOR=#000000][B]Tips To Use Broadband Effectively[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]by Omega[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]The saying ‘well begun is half done’ is true for most of our daily endeavors and it gains more prominence when we deal with technology. Broadband internet access is reaching out to homes at a very fast pace, it is expected that by … |
| | Hello, My forum didn't require a code verification and thus by a script or a software, someone made automated registrations for hundreds of fake usernames and emails. The common point in these users are their IP adress and birthdays. How can I mass delete those users? I use VBulletin 3.07 … |
| | Hey everybody! I too am creating my own community right now, and trying to figure out if I'm "in-line" when it comes to its membership ratio. For every 1000 unique visitors, I'm getting about 5 people to become members, so about .5%.....What does everybody think should be considered the norm?? … |
 | I have just installed a hack that won't let people post messages under a set number of characters. That makes my people stop posting one liners. Love it. Did you install such things?  |
| | Do you think it's alright to have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to self-promotion, spam, or even the posting of any and all links - in a webmaster-oriented community (ie WebmasterWorld, DaniWeb)? On one hand, it seems good to have a black and white policy - and on … |
 | I have discussion forum where we talk about crashing computer games, possible fixes and other problems. i receive tremendous amount of visitors yet nobody coming forward to participate, reply and help others in the forum. This site had already been for about a year still i havent noticed any single … |
| | As community owners and administrators, we often have the least opportunity to actually sit back and enjoy our own communities. When we post, it's either to deal with some behind-the-scenes administrative issue, or for some other reason such as welcoming new members, getting postrate up, or the alltime favorite, keeping … |
| | hello, im planning to add a chatroom or web instant messenger to a website im building, to allow users to chat with each other in real time. i was thinking to buy a script like [url]www.123flashchat.com[/url], but their price is (ridiculousy) toohigh. so instead im thinking about programming one myself. … |
| | Hi guys, This forum is very interesting and I couldn't wait to post something, so please forgive me if this has been asked before! I decided to build my own forum instead of using one of the prepackaged units such as phpbb or vbulletin. I've tinkered with phpbb and even … |
| | I have already started the war on an admins forum and on my community, want a heated discussion here too :) Nope, am not trolling, just want a serious debate :) I see many forums add news in their content. RSS, article bots or just the admin copying news from … |
| | Just curious how the fellow forum owners deal with open proxies and spamming trolls? |
| | How do you get rid of all those one post wonders? They come, post once, and leave. Or, better yet, they register and just don't post at all? I have already customized the welcome email sent out to new members. I am thinking about sending new members a PM upon … |
| | What types of advertising does everyone run on their forum? How many ads is too many? Do you just stick with AdSense and YPN or do you do graphical campaigns? Anyone with IntelliTXT? What is user response like? What is considered going too far? Most importantly, at what point do … |
| | Since some of us are forum admins ourselves, I thought we could have a nice chat about this too: what did our last banned member do to get shown the door? |
| | We have a forum entitled "Advertising Sales and Affiliate Programs" where people are meant to discuss the pros and cons of selling ad space, how to go about doing so, review various affiliate programs and agencies, etc. However, many people mistake this as a forum to post that they are … |
 | I have a plea for advice from admins of large, successful forums. I'm in a bind. I run a few forums, and finally created a successful one. But last week, one of the moderators posted some material that was copyrighted by someone else, and I took the material down. Apparently, … |
| | Does anyone have any contest ideas that would help to strengthen a community but are not very time consuming to oversee / maintain and will work well with a big board? I don't want it to be where members submit entrees because then I would have to manually examine every … |
| | I've got suckered in to a scam, I wont mention the names of companys right now. but, I can say this. I received a E-mail from Amsterdam, netherlands stating I won $350,000. I received many E-mails from them and fake Certificates. they wanted $920.00 wired to them so I did. …  |
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