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Forum Administration - The Comprehensive Guide!

This article was first posted on our blog on 11/02/2011. For this reason, the information may be outdated and no longer reliable/correct. This question has been on the lips of webmasters and forums owners all around the world. I often get direct messages on twitter asking how its done, but 140 characters is never enough! All content here is learned from past experience. I've been a webmaster since the age of 9, ran 4 forums and been staff on 6. I'm helping everyone here by sharing my experiences! So let's begin. In this post, you'll read about the following:- Kicking...

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5 Reasons Why You Might Be Losing Members

5 Reasons Why You Might Be Losing Members Getting people to join your forum and become members can be one of the hardest things to do. Losing these members is probably the easiest thing you can do. There are many reasons a member might leave, but we're going to cover the basics. Here you'll find the most common reasons for someone leaving and how to fix it. Reason #1: Staff Stop Contributing It's pretty easy for a member to detect if an admin, or staff member is taking their forum seriously or not. I've left many forums just because the...

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Common Problems with New Forums

During my time as a reviewer on Forum Promotion, I began to see a pattern in the things that made me deduct points. Many forums, particularly new forums, were making the same mistakes. Many of these mistakes that the new forums were making were particularly bothersome to me, so I'm sure that many others are turned off when they see them, too. Obviously, all new forums are going to have some limitations (e.g. lack of members, few topics, low post count), but many of the problems I saw in my reviews can be easily corrected. When your forum is new,...

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