i am the only admin of my forum........... so this tells about me that i dont like any another person as an admin for my forum
well...if that staff member is doing is work nicely and regularly ....then i dont mind if that person was/is working on any competing forum.......
LOL same thing i did...... LOL in my case ,the guy became so much happy LOL i had to tell him that all that happened because of a mistake :P LOL
i would PM the poster to warn him that his actions will not be tolerated.......and i will edit or delete his thread/post......
just make a warning system............and warn the members making any flaming or harassing post.....and if theyh dont listen u can ban them
ya the best idea is to only allow those members to post in that area who already have 30+ posts in other sections of the forum
i dont allow the any kind of racist thing.............not even any abusive word :P the "F" work.......or any other abusive language my forum has...
some people ask for ban willingly if they think that they are giving their too much time to the forum...and they just need a retirement............
well......if the forum start gaining traffic and in other works it becomes "big" then automatically u start getting active members also people...
i once saw a username "Virus" lol thats funny to have a username like this :P
never heard about vanilla forums lol yet bt now i may check it out ;-)
NO...i have never used drupal as my forum software :P :)
well...i will personally not recommend you to go back to VB because swithing again and again will make it look very unprofessional.......and it ll...
it is alright for the the beginning.......bt once you start getting traffic .then the posts count will also increase .......so u may have to...
i like mybb........... actually i dont like vbulletin much and have never used IPB
i like mybb...because all are big forums i have visited use mybb
ya... if people like your website and the change you make to it.....then surely the traffic will increase otherwise if it ll look bad the u may...
yeah........you can apply anytime for the adsense........it wont make much difference
well...the facebook can really help in promoting the site.........you can very easily post on the pages that are related to your forum's...
yeah converting to phpBB seems to be a better option......just import all your old data ......like threads ,members,etc
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