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Your Moderation Tactics

I’ve noticed recently there has been a bit of a split down the middle of thoughts on Moderation of Communities. On one side you’ve got people who like to have a laissez-faire approach, the other is very tight and rigid rules and guidelines. I’m not here to tell you what is right or what is …

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Managing Online Forums Book Review

I just recently purchased a book that should interest most (if not all) Forum Owners. The Book is “Managing Online Forums” by Patrick O’Keefe. Patrick is well versed in forums as he owns/manages more than I can probably count, runs the largest phpBB modification community (phpBBhacks.com) and is the owner of the iFroggy network. Anyways, …

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Thoughts on vBulletin 3.7.0 Gold

Now that I’ve been running vBulletin 3.7.0 Gold on my forum for 2 weeks or so I figure I can give a decent opinion of the progress of vB.  There are positives and negatives to 3.7, but I do think it is worth the hassle of upgrading templates and files to update. What Changed? …

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vBulletin Tags

With the Gold release of vBulletin 3.7.0, the most noticeable differences in vBulletin are the social elements such as an updated friends/contact list, user albums, and profile comments. Along with this, and the “Web 2.0” vibe, of course, they added Tags. I’ve never really been a fan of tags, but I’ve started to use them …

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Latest Buzzword: LongTail

I’ve known of sites “Longtail” for quite some time but it seems to be gaining popularity over the past half year or so. Just recently I was on vBSEO’s forums updating my reports on how well their content-friendly URL’s have been doing for me and I noticed quite a bit of talk about these Longtails. …

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Forum Update

Over the past 3 months I’ve seen a large growth in my Camaro Forums. Up until about 2 months ago traffic, registrations, and post activity were all at a somewhat consistant rate (not as high as I’d like), then in February the exposure of the site really began to take off and I’ve grown from …

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