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Moderators are important to have on larger communities, and I wouldn't hire a mod unless I'm sure that they are a really involved member of the community, staff that know the community are better...

Welcome to the forum! Have a great time on here!

Really? Good thing I moved my forum back to Zetaboards. I started my forum on Zeta and then closed it to move to IPBfree then the weekly downtime and scam ads where too much of a pain to deal with...

The hardest part is spending time on it to make it not fail and die. Finding a good theme and getting members is worst part I have to deal with.

Great information, I will try this.

I'm not much of a blogger, I don't really know what it is even. But people on my forum can have blogs. Maybe I'll look into it.

Hey, thanks for joining, it's great to have you here. I really hope you like it and remember to stay active! But most importantly...HAVE FUN!

Well I've worked a lot of places, and I'm the owner of my own forum, but I find time to work at other places too. I don't care if I am staff at a forum, I just like to help out places if they want...

We now have ANOTHER radio station, which we will be able to keep up 24/7 at times. If you would like to be a DJ on this radio station just contact me, and you can listen to the radio station here at...

Thanks everyone! We recently just broke 2700 posts. Help us grow by spreading the word about this wonderful forum. We got tons of rewards and free giveaways on the forum to our members at random...

Hello, We already met, lol, but welcome to the forum! Have a great stay here!

Keep advertising and encouraging your members to post. It shouldn't really matter when they post, just as long as they are posting proper content and having a great time on the forum. You could...

I don't hide any forums from my guests, but maybe if I did it would bring in more members. People would have to join to see what the posts and threads are about.

Site Name: Downtown Tokyo

Site Link: http://www.downtowntokyo.co.cc

Site description (max 24 words): Friendly anime community with the latest news in anime and manga, with our own radio...

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Last year on the 4th of July I was at my friends' house. The weather was rain showers off and on, so...

Welcome to the forum Marcus! Please do enjoy your stay.

I've created a small 2 1/2 minute video about the forum. Give it a watch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QqfFQ0WwTA

Very nice site, what exactly are you looking for in a person wanting any of those positions?

Very nice board, hope it grows big. Keep up the great work on it.

Have a great time on holiday!

I use a portal which has the video of the week, our music player, and a few other fun odds and ends.

I have an anime forum, but can't decide on what kind of affilate button to have. I would use bannermaker but the site isn't working right now, so if anyone is willing to show off thier amazing...

Funny, I totally forgot I joined that place. That is a coincidence. I sure didn't expect to see my name. It is a very well made site, and it's off to a great start.

Well I collect pennies and DVDs. Mainly anime and scary movies. I also have a small oven mitt collection of funny looking oven mits. One is a fish, a spongebob one, a grandma looking one, and a...

Website Name: Downtown Tokyo

site link: http://www.downtowntokyo.co.cc

Website Description: If you don't even know the first thing about anime, then stop by here! We don't care how much or...

Thanks guys so much for the warm welcomes! I have tons of stories, and lots tales to share so if you ever want to hear any of them, just let me know, I'd be more than happy to share them with you! ...

Hi everyone, it's a pleasure to meet you all. I'm Regice, I love anime and any form of animation at all in fact. I enjoy pretty much any sport, from Gymnastics to skateboarding to kayaking. I hope...

That forum is not based off of the off topic and/or forum games section. It is for a particular video game and there is like 2% of all posts are made in that entire category of the forum, and this...

Probably around 40ish, if that, around 40. 250, even 400 is a huge number of forums! Forty is pushing it for the number of forums I've joined.

Not just admins, but mods as well, these are the worst kind of people out there. I don't spend any time on a forum with staff like that.

Haven't been banned from a forum, I do join them, but leave before I make a huge impression on the community.

Graphics are nice, but contents is a bit more important to me in a forum. A forum with a lot of posts, but 80% of them are in forum games and off topic, well that tells me it is a forum with a lot...

My highest post count is on my own forum, which is like 300ish. I see most of you have yours on Forum Promotion.

So many things put me off a forum, but the major one is the staff, staff that do not get along, staff that make up their own rules and act like they own the board when they really don't. That makes...

It's not in my rules, but I will make sure it gets added. Any PM advertising will get that member banned. It really puts me off a forum.

I try to find smilies that I would find my users actually using. Having 300 smilies and none of them ever being used is a waste of dataspace. I don't use smilies that often though.

There is a forum, but it is soooo full of hateful posts, I joined and after my intro post, as a user I was so disgusted with the forum I was done with it. Those replies to the intro post we not even...

Probably. I don't think that there are a lot of people drowning from their killer whales, and the odds of it happening twice on the same day is pretty high. Shamu is a wild animal and if you mess...

I heard that Shamu killed his/her 3 human today, one was a person who tried to sneak in the exhibit, another was a tranier, and today an attack! Is this a killer whale that can be trusted? I'm not...

Just an Army system, shop where I mainly use for quizzes that give out rewards, a mod for friends, and an arcade.

I don't use it at all, I may use it if a member is breaking the rules often, but they would most likely just be banned from the forum, queues are just one more thing for me and my staff to deal with.

A couple months, I've never really spent any time on any forums until a few months ago, and I got a mod position, then an admin one, and I opened my own forum. Then I was picked to be an interviewer...

Not advertising enough, I've made a list of things to add to the forum, like some forum games and such, but I'm not on it too much to post them. It's not that active though. And making too many...

vBulliten is very expensive and I would like to use it, but I'm not about to spend $200 bucks for forum software when I can use IPBfree and Zetaboards and still make a great forum, just will take a...

On certain forums I will go on hidden, but only because I don't want to be seen online. I got my reasons.

Asking others for ideas and bouncing off thoughts are a great way to get just what you need for your forum. There are many people on the net willing to help out.

I can't seem to get any feedback on my forum. Feedback that is constructive is very much welcome and anything pointless is considered spam, flaming, insulting, and will just get deleted.

Themes are very hard to make, though I did learn a bit about CSS to try and make my own theme for my Zetaboards forum. I just use a pre-made theme.

Admins must have been on the forum for a long time, at least half a year, have one of the top post counts for the forum, and really show that they care about the site. They must have previously been...

I do my very best to welcome every new member when they join. It is very important to do so, they most likely wont return if they are not greeted.

Just to keep it at a reasonable size or it will get removed. I hate forums with a really small size limit on signatures.

The easiest way of dealing with them is to permanently ban them. That's what happens on my forum, but first time is a simple warning and I notify my staff to watch that member.

I'm on a budget of $0 so I know about the free forum providers, and my favorites to use are Zetaboards for it's extremely friendly interface for anyone who has never even attempted to make a forum. ...

Never been hacked and I go though all the possible ways of preventing it. I mean all the possible ways. Only picking staff I can trust, things of that nature.

10. Only 10. Soon to be 7 after I remove the people who do not post at all. Only the active members of my forum shall remain, at least for the time being.

181 currently, but I have not even bothered to promote the site that much.

I don't have any problems with any of my users so far, but with 10 members how can you? I will delete a member who joins the forum and does not make any posts or very few posts, if they make one...

Posting a note if the forum gets off topic, and they should be locked and moved to a private forum if flaming or trolling occurs.

Sure sounds like Jonathon totally over-reacted and you need to watch out for people like that.

If anything, I say being understaffed is better than overstaffed. I worked on a forum that was overstaffed, you learn a lot, but I don't visit it anymore because of all the frequent hackings. ...

I have a set of rules for my mods to follow along with the member's rules. These are nothing regarding how to post, just some things to follow so they know what to do and not do. I do include a...

Staff need to be very trustworthy, and active, having a post/time limit is a good way of knowing just how active a member is. I find it a good way to HELP pick out possible staff, but this should...

I was looking at an ACER laptop with like 8 hours of battery life, then ultimately went with an HP G60 laptop, I still use vista, but have a free upgrade at any time!

Getting new members is the hardest part. Every member at my forum needs to feel important, like they matter, because they do, I pride on having my members give me feedback on what they want seen...

I find pay per clicks to be a bit risky, you could come across a user how finds it fun to click all over your site but not join, and run up your bill.

I have never been to twitter, I have no idea how twitter does promoting wise, but wouldn't advertising your forum's twitter page would be any different from posting your forum's link. I bet it is a...

Probably on average 5 hours of sleep a night, I am usually online or watching anime. I do try to get some sleep every night but I can run fine on 0 hours of sleep. I almost never get no sleep a...

I used an admin must activate the account feature on my first forum, but now I use an email activation, this is because I want my users to receive important updates regarding the forum. I do find...

Those are very good points to follow by. Very good points, and I follow these as well, if there is anything you forgot to mention, is probably the most important thing of all...Pick your mods...

Adding a link or banner in a thread is a very old way of promoting and you see it everywhere, so nowadays you need to have a banner that really pops out of the screen, right into the user's eyes.

Big forums have a lot of trouble regulating this I see. The worst are the ones who make up their own rules to a section in the forum. They think they own the forum, and that is a major turn off for...

Promotion forums are a great way to get your name out on the net. I use them and they are a great way to find new members or affiliates. They are a great place to advertise for a budget of $0.

I do not use topsites, but from what I have heard they are effective, but not a major source of promoting. I personally never visit any topsite websites, and I feel that there are a lot of other...

Both are very good, but everyone should get a computer that suits their needs. I have a laptop because I am a college student, I'm on the go a lot, it is lightweight to me that is, only 5.3 pounds I...

Hello, I would like to say hi to all. A little bit about me, I have my own forum, it's more of a side project though. I like to play any sport you can thing of an enjoy games of all kinds. I spend...