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When you think of promotion for your forum, what comes to mind?

Have you ever had an incident involving a staff member on the forum that resulted in your having to ban said staff member?

If so, tell us about the situation if you can.

How many staff titles and positions do you offer on your forum?

Just administrators and moderators, or maybe just moderators?

Or do you have other titles and positions available?

Do you conduct post exchanges with other forums?

How serious do you conduct them? Do you try to remain on topic or go straight to the off topic section?

How would you rate the quality of most post exchanges these days?

As an online community operator, do you try to extend your knowledge about cybersecurity more?

Just as social media platforms, in reality, we’re responsible for the protection of member data. Cybersecurity is a we concern not just a platform developer’s concern.

Is this something you try to learn about? Tell us about your journey in cybersecurity.

How welcoming are your members to newbies? Do they say hello or welcome in the newcomer’s welcome thread? Do they reach out on their profiles to say Greetings or something else? Or do they mostly stick to talking to the people they know on the forum?

Does your staff go missing? Come back? Then go missing again? How do you keep your staff engaged?

How often do you get an outsider to do a community review on your forum? Do you correct the things they’ve suggested?

Do you post on your forum every day?

Do you try to post new topics each day?

Do you think it’s important for forum owners to do this?

What are the most forums you have ever ran at once?

Are there any forum owners out there that run multiple communities?

Or do you think that is asking for trouble?

If you accept ads on your site, have you found that it helps pay for it? Or are you more into doing mutual exchanges of advertising with other sites?

Categories, boards, and sub-boards.

How many is too many to start with?

How often do you add new ones to your forum?

What has to happen before you’ll consider adding a new one?

Are you good at responding to members fairly quickly when they need help? Is it within the hour? 6 hours? 24? More?

What does your moderation protocol policy look like when members violate the rules?

@Gizmo is the king of seasonal forum events. 🙂

Do any of you do this sort of thing?

Seasonal-boards, seasonal themes, seasonal contests, etc.

If so, tell us about it and what seasons you do on your forum.

That ghost town phase can break a very strong person mentally. You post a topic, refresh the page 20 times, nothing happened. Sometimes I purposely reply my own threads just to make the place look active. Consistency is the only thing that helped me because if you abandon the forum for one week, everywhere would look like abandoned estate. 🤣

How do you feel about paying for forum posts?

Have you ever done paid posting at all? If so, how much have you paid, and was it worth it?

Do you think paid posters are deceptive to your real members at all?

If you were to see acts of illegal actions on your forum, would you report it to law enforcement?

Things like threats and stuff like that which serious enough to report.

But alternatively, you could just ban the people and not report it. But some might feel a forum owner has an obligation to report it.

What do you think?

Do you allow members who are under the age of 18 to be a part of your forum?

If so, why?

Facebook gets sued constantly because of safety issues for those under 18. Do you think forums are safe from those lawsuits? If you do, you should read the laws in your country as most countries offer 0% protection to you.

I updated one of my add-ons since an update released last week and instantly got hit with a database error, so the update itself is botched and now i't’s in limbo since it initiated the update process but couldn’t finish.

I’m seeing more and more reasons to migrate over to ForumSpark but my biggest issue is being able to afford the highest or 2nd highest tier……it’s a bit steep since i ain’t making much if anything at all from my forum at the moment. 🙁

For those of you who offer a premium membership plan on your forum, what benefits do you offer?

How do you make your premium membership stand out?

How much do you charge?

As the owner of your forum, what is the highest number of posts you’ve posted on the forum in one day?

What’s your typical number each day?

Here’s a rather interesting topic…

Do you ever find yourself having dreams about forums?

People dream about their work all the time. I know I do regularly.

I’ve also dreamed about making new forums and those new forums becoming really successful.

Have any of you had similar dreams?

Do you think changing the theme, forum layout style, logo, features, and etc. is a great way to freshen up your forum?

Or could it actually be a bad idea because most members don’t like change or don’t want to have to get used to a new process?

In the past, I’ve seen a forum go fairly inactive after a simple theme change. Could it have been that the membership couldn’t tolerate the change?

Maybe it’s worth it to stick with what you first decide on.

What do you all think?

Controversial topic but always a fun one to see what everyone thinks.

Some people say forums are a dying breed.

What do you think?