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11-16-2005, 03:40 AM
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Simple solution that has been employed on a forum I have frequented for 3 years (the only one might I add)
There is no general chat forum. Only forums for actual site topics. Sounds simple but its amazing how well this works. Becuase there is no general chat, all posts are directed to their relevant forum.
The mods know what they're doing. I myself moderate the PHP forum, becuase I'm pretty good with PHP.
You have to be kind/respectful while enforcing the rules, for example, if a user posts with a bad title, try to help them but let them know the title needs changing.
No images in avatar / signature... Signature is max 4 lines.
No "referral competitions" or the like, makes a forum look very improfessional IMO. Insteady, they run a "Helpful Member Award"
(the forum is http://www.codingforums.com)
Obviously, not all of this would apply, depending on the theme of the forum, but these would be my best guidelines.
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11-18-2005, 01:40 AM
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Originally Posted by sketchie
What a terrible agest remark! Maturaty is most certainly not an age thing.
Sure, more often than not, twelve year olds are going to "strt tlkin lik dis". But just because your eighteen, it doesn't make you auto-mature I'll have you know. Besides, your getting rid of a whole section of people that would help boost your forums popularity.
The moderators should be the mature ones, you can't just choose a mature audience, there is no stereotypical age that's mature - besides people that can't use computers very well  .
Besides, kids can lie, so you may aswell set it to somewhere lower so they don't get annoyed at the age restriction.
Anyway, design? Well the colours need to go with eachother, three main colours usually do the trick. Personally, Blues, whites and greys are often used (Not neccessarily together) and generally look nice with alot of colours.
Content? Well it all depends what your forum is about really.
Back to the mods, firm, friendly, but fair does the trick. |
Suspected you were a kid, then I saw your profile and my suspicions were confirmed.
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12-09-2005, 09:09 AM
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What makes a forum professional?
An unique template (custom made and developed until it's the only one that looks like this)
serious content and posts
nice members, friendly approach
great moderating team
a lot of modding and tweaking, attention to feed-back.
As for the age ... My mods are 14 and 17. They are some of the best members I have on my communities, so age has little to do with maturity ..
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12-09-2005, 01:17 PM
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All in the moderation and presentation.
Filter out common mis spellings :P
haha, just kidding.
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12-09-2005, 02:53 PM
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Haha, lol oneimedia
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12-10-2005, 12:38 AM
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You just need good members.
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12-10-2005, 01:57 AM
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12-10-2005, 03:13 AM
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I really only choose to use this board over other ones because of how userfriendly it is, and how the staff that runs it acts. It's a nice change from forums where people are on high horses, or power hungry admins.
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12-10-2005, 03:41 AM
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Originally Posted by ev5
Simple solution that has been employed on a forum I have frequented for 3 years (the only one might I add)
There is no general chat forum. Only forums for actual site topics. Sounds simple but its amazing how well this works. Becuase there is no general chat, all posts are directed to their relevant forum.
The mods know what they're doing. I myself moderate the PHP forum, becuase I'm pretty good with PHP.
You have to be kind/respectful while enforcing the rules, for example, if a user posts with a bad title, try to help them but let them know the title needs changing.
No images in avatar / signature... Signature is max 4 lines.
No "referral competitions" or the like, makes a forum look very improfessional IMO. Insteady, they run a "Helpful Member Award"
(the forum is http://www.codingforums.com)
Obviously, not all of this would apply, depending on the theme of the forum, but these would be my best guidelines. |
I'd say this would be a good route if your forum isn't a casual subject. Some forums do quite well with genral chat. Depends on the professionalism in the audience if it's a good idea.
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12-10-2005, 03:46 AM
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You say that ev5 but your stats aren't looking that great considering the forum has been around since 2002 (nearly 4 years!) and considering you have such a great domain! If you had general chat you would have more activity and there would probably be more sense of a community...what happens when a post just doesn't fit in? Surely you can't talk about the specified topic 24/7!
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