What's your view on using real names versus an alias as a forum username? Do you prefer to see forum members with real person usernames or do you discourage this for the sake of privacy? From one point of view, I think r...
With a forum, you can get great daily content which is generated by the forum members. But, if you add a forum blog (such as on a subfolder of the site), you can also benefit by posting ever green content. This content w...
I used to be part of this really large forum where members would get on during weekend hours acting drunk. They didn't say anything about drinking but many acted beligerant and hostile and easily riled up. I'm wondering ...
Right now, I'm thinking about starting a forum about mishaps and odd events, such as natural/manmade disasters. I think there would be enough content for this type of forum but not sure if anyone would post there, unles...
It just makes sense to be active on your competitor's forum, assuming they allow you to have a signature backlink. You would want to contribute your very best posts and new discussions on the forum and create trust with...
For instance, there would be one main category, let's say 'general chat' and that's it, no other sub-sub forums or subcategories. And, literally ALL discussions would go into that and you'd have to sort through page afte...
I started a forum to have another place to talk with my blog readers and it was just more fun having them start discussions and not always having to come up with the posts for everyone to talk about. What were your reaso...
Does your forum suffer from tempermental forum members or forum dramas that seem like a big deal at first but then pass easily?
Do you have a plan for what your staff will do, if you decide to shut down your forum?
A moderator who has worked on your site for awhile might be the perfect source for a new hire. Chances are, this person already knows at least one other person who would work well within the forum community. Do you ask...
If you choose to have a private subforum, you might restrict it to members who have a minimum post count. This can be beneficial as it will inspire current forum members to post more and might increase new sign ups. Ho...
When answering a technical question on a forum, I always do research on Google. Even a quick search will usually turn up an answer. And, even if the post is not very long, the answer is sufficient to help the member ou...
On some forums where I'm active, I get random private messages. Some are just spam with links, others are just invasive and personal. Do you ever encounter these situations on forums? Also as an admin or forum owner h...
My own personal forum is general chat. I started the forum when my favorite general chat forum shut down. It was fun having a place for me and my friends to talk about just anything. What's your forum about and why di...
On every forum, there will always be a massive amount of noobie type questions from people just starting out in the niche. This is especially true of webmaster/SEO and admin forums where people ask the same questions fr...
When hiring an admin, do you recruit from within your current mod staff? Or, do you ask for admin applications on other sites, such as recruiting from outside your current staff? What are the advantages or disadvantage...
Private messages can be used by forum members as a tool to talk with friends on forum but also for bad reasons such as spamming. And, this makes the private message system an area where you constantly need to monitor ac...
If you are a forum owner or admin, do you post under your own name? Or, do you choose a pseudonym or fake name to protect your own identity? What are some of the advantages of posting under your own name versus a fake ...
It's only natural that staff members can become frustrated, especially when over worked or dealing with a trolling member. How do you deal with forum staff when they are frustrated? What are some of the things you can ...
With a new forum, you'll have fewer threads and posts to moderate, so you might not need many moderators. However, it would be useful to have at least one admin to help manage the behind the scenes aspects of your forum...
If you are relying on your admin and mod staff to run your forum, it can be very damaging if the staff just decided not to show up and moderate or post. Has your forum ever been damaged by inactive staff?
What are the advantages of requiring new members to post an introduction before they are allowed to post in any other area of your forum? Are there disadvantages to requiring this?
What are some of the reasons you would fire a forum admin or mod? What could they do that was so bad you did not want them on forum anymore?
I'd love to find a great new source for forum smilies. Where do you find your best forum smilies? Please provide a link.
At one time, forums were a great place to meet others with similar interests and have great conversations. Now you can get the same experience on Facebook. And, almost everything you can do on a forum can be done on ...
With the Vanilla forums, you'll pay around $99 a month, which seems very expensive for a hosted cloud based forum. Are there any specific advantages to using the cloud version of Vanilla forums? Or, would you simply d...
One of the most popular admin forums focus only on specific software, such as Xenforo/vBulletin, with all other software being compiled into a catch all generic subforum. And, considering there are so many more software...
What are your thoughts about self promotion on your forum? Do you tolerate any kind of link promotion? Do you let members occasionally mention (or blatantly refer to) their own sites and links? Not specifically talking...
So I have ran a few posting competitions on my forum, and im just about to start another one in the next week or so. I am just wanting some replies with tips I should keep in mind for running it, and also some new rules ...
Do you have any member inspired subforums, such as special sections on your forum which were suggested by members? And, how are these areas working out?
I like it when forum members take the time to use an avatar as it makes the forum seem like a more friendly place. What's your thoughts on forum avatars?
How much time will you invest into your forum to make it a success, either daily, monthly or yearly? And, do yo ever get paid back for the time invested?
There are just too many gamer and gaming forums online and most not even focusing on one specific platform or game, but more generic gaming niche. Why do people still try to compete with such a large niche? And, any ad...
Is there a super easy forum niche to dominate, both with traffic, members and SEO? What would that niche be?
Do you think of your forum in the same way as an online business, similar to how a site owner who sells products would? Does it help to treat a forum like a business?
If someone has been making bullying type comments on your forum, can you temporarily mute them so they can browse the forum but not post?
Have you noticed how some sites have lots and lots of spam? Maybe spam activity just brings more spam, so spammers who show up and see the spam know that site is not moderated well and drop links and spam everywhere. ...
This seems to be a very common thing with hackers now, trying to bruteforce or guess passwords multiple times. How do you protect your forum or site from this type of hacking?
What are your best tips for staying safe on a forum to protect yourself from harassment, hackers or stalkers?
It might seem like a good thing to have forum members actively clicking on your Adsense ads. But, this could also be perceived as suspicious clicks by Adsense, resulting in your account being suspended or shut down. So...
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| SELECT * FROM categories_faq WHERE seo=? | 1 | SELECT CATID, seo, name, metatitle, h2header, metakeywords, metadescription, metaheader, parentid, image_name FROM categories_faq WHERE seo=? | /opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() GetCategoryInfoFromTypeSeo() |
| SELECT * FROM categories_faq WHERE CATID='52' | 1 | SELECT CATID, seo, name, metatitle, h2header, metakeywords, metadescription, metaheader, parentid, image_name FROM categories_faq WHERE CATID='52' | /opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() GetCategorySeoFromType() |
| SELECT * FROM questions A, categories_faq B, seoclerks.members C where A.status='1' AND A.catid=B.CATID AND A.userid=C.USERID AND B.seo='forum-administration' LIMIT 1 | 1 | SELECT count(A.quesid) as total FROM questions A, categories_faq B, seoclerks.members C
where A.status='1' AND A.catid=B.CATID AND A.userid=C.USERID AND B.seo='forum-administration' LIMIT 1 | /opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() () |
| SELECT * FROM questions A, categories_faq B, seoclerks.members C where A.status='1' AND A.catid=B.CATID AND A.userid=C.USERID AND B.seo='forum-administration' ORDER BY A.sticky DESC, A.date_asked DESC LIMIT 320, 40 | 1 | SELECT A.*, C.username, C.userlevel FROM questions A, categories_faq B, seoclerks.members C
where A.status='1' AND A.catid=B.CATID AND A.userid=C.USERID AND B.seo='forum-administration'
ORDER BY A.sticky DESC, A.date_asked DESC LIMIT 320, 40 | /opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() () |
| SELECT * from questions as A where A.status='1' AND CATID=54 | 1 | SELECT count(A.quesid) as total from questions as A
where A.status='1' AND CATID=54 | /opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() () |
| SELECT * FROM answers as A, questions as Q where A.status='1' AND A.quesid=Q.quesid AND Q.CATID=54 | 1 | SELECT count(A.ansid) as total
FROM answers as A, questions as Q where A.status='1' AND A.quesid=Q.quesid AND Q.CATID=54 | /opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() () |
| SELECT * FROM members_ledger WHERE (script='/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/faq.php' OR script='/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/viewfaq.php') AND added>=UNIX_TIMESTAMP(NOW())-1200 GROUP BY USERID | 1 | SELECT USERID, username FROM members_ledger
WHERE (script='/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/faq.php'
OR script='/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/viewfaq.php')
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| /opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() () |
| SELECT * FROM categories | 1 | SELECT * FROM categories | /opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() parseRedundantQueriesCache() |
| select * from categories_software order by name asc | 1 | select * from categories_software order by name asc | /opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() insert_GetSoftwareCategories() |
| select * from categories_wanttobuy order by name asc | 1 | select * from categories_wanttobuy order by name asc | /opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() insert_get_wantcategories() |
| select * from categories_wanttotrade order by name asc | 1 | select * from categories_wanttotrade order by name asc | /opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() insert_get_tradecategories() |
| SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='147' | 1 | SELECT profilepicture FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='147' | /opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() getUserProfileImage() |
| SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='65040' | 1 | SELECT profilepicture FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='65040' | /opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() getUserProfileImage() |
| SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='21811' | 1 | SELECT profilepicture FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='21811' | /opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() getUserProfileImage() |
| SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='49657' | 1 | SELECT profilepicture FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='49657' | /opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() getUserProfileImage() |
| SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='20884' | 1 | SELECT profilepicture FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='20884' | /opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() getUserProfileImage() |
| SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='49660' | 1 | SELECT profilepicture FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='49660' | /opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() getUserProfileImage() |
| SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='1856' | 1 | SELECT profilepicture FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='1856' | /opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() getUserProfileImage() |
| SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='63253' | 1 | SELECT profilepicture FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='63253' | /opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() getUserProfileImage() |
| SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='20625' | 1 | SELECT profilepicture FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='20625' | /opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() getUserProfileImage() |
| select * from categories_faq order by name asc | 1 | select * from categories_faq order by name asc | /opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() insert_GetFaqCategories() |
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