If you run a free-flowing message board, or even a blog, you have to make it clear to your community just what behavior is acceptable and what is not. This is usually done through a “terms of use” or even a posted message called a “posting policy.”
There is nothing worse than removing a post or […]
02.27Let People Leave
If you run a message board long enough, eventually you will encounter the phenomenon I call “lookatme.”
A member of the community, whom is a prolific poster and spends way too much time on your forum, suddenly decides that their time is better spent in other areas, or is feeling depressed and is going to “leave […]
It happens to many bloggers who don’t feel like they are getting the attention from the blogosphere they need or deserve… suddenly out of nowhere, they go on a rampage and publish an incredibly controversial or berating article just to try and get attention. Similar to mentioning names you know people have alerts for, this […]