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 […]
When launching a new message board forum for a site, or launching a new site from scratch that includes a forum, it is easy to assume that the millions of potential visitors to your site will want forums for every conceivable option. For instance, if you have a new web site dedicated to the Nintendo […]