AlexJ

On the forums I run, I never tolerate a member who is disrespectful of my mods. I usually will just ban them, this however almost never happens. As for a member bashing another member, I let it go. A little conflict never hurt a forum. :D

The biggest problem with paid posting services is that the writers aren't being paid enough. I've found that paying my writers well above the industry standard and giving them incentives to produce good work for the sake of getting a pay promotion has worked great concerning the quality of my …

I have joined many a forum, and the only annoying thing about them is the email confirmation. I too have tested whether of not disabling the email activation inreases conversion rate, and it did significantly. It's not like you can't still ask for a new members email address upon registration, …

Do you allow political and religious debate in your forum? A lot of people I know don't, but in my two forums it seems to get members really excited and causes lots of new posts/threads/ and perhaps even members. Sure it makes some members offended, but it also keeps most …

I usually just throw a couple bucks to experienced Sitepoint members who know how to fix complex problems on my site. They are usually willing to do quick complex tasks for a couple bucks.

I've thought about this. But if found that many of my members post good one liners and sometimes a few words can have a lot of knowledge in it.

I checked out your site, it seems that most people come to your site for it's content. As for your forum, I suggest making it more user friendly, maybe switch to phpbb type forum.

I've found that after operating several forums and being in the forum business, it makes posting a little too much like work. Although I do quite enjoy internet related work.

On one of my forums I have a special forum just for news. I post about one news article relevant to my forum about once a day, and I encourage my members to post news as well. So far I've got nothing but positive feedback about the forum. As long …

When I was starting out with my forums (under 200 members) I would PM members who posted and then left for awhile. I would tell them about contents, offers, or just remind them about the forum. I'd say about 20 percent of the members came back and are now atleast …

I own two forums. I've found that selling banner space to be more lucrative than adsense. My forums are in a really small niche, so advertisers are willing to pay more for adspace, because the traffic is [I]very[/I] targeted.