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Regular - admin
52 posts

Another great post by Martin.  Some of the best points are:

Keep the community visible. 
This applies to Lefora groups especially.  Making your group private only closes it off from people discovering it and from Google indexing the posts and threads you and your members create.  Keep it as open as possible.
Invite new members to get involved
Send private messages to people as they join.  Introducing yourself and being friendly often time is enough to spark interest in your group.

The others he describes perfectly so no need for me to reiterate.  Most importantly I feel that being open and helping your members will result in a great community in the long run.

http://www.communityspark.com/community-building-getting-members-active-and-addicted/

Rookie - member
3 posts

we had a troll, which can be entertaining, and something for bored members something to concentrate on.

However after a time the troll becomes boring.

So should we absolutely try to stop trolls from entering our site?

Rookie - member
1 posts

I love trolls, unless they're spamming, or name calling,  I leave them alone.

Fanatic - founder
3758 posts

it's much better to leave your site open for all the potential new traffic you can get (just like we do here on support).  You should try to deal with trolls on a one-off basis, here's a great article on how to deal with trolls.

http://blog.lefora.com/2009/01/21/internet-trolls/

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Novice - member
20 posts

people joined my site but they never come back on to even look at the mail i sent them. how can i get my forum active like that.

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Fanatic - founder
3758 posts

We'll be introducing auto-newsletters over the next few months.  That will email members of your forum about new activity since over the past week - this should help encourage them to come back and be active.

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Novice - member
35 posts

YAY for that!

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Teresa Theriot Founder and CEO, www.thebudgetqueen.com
Novice - member
39 posts


In our group we keep ppl addicted to the games we play....
 
 


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Rookie - member
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Thanak you for the advice!

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Rookie - member
2 posts

we had a troll, which can be entertaining, and something for bored members something to concentrate on.
However after a time the troll becomes boring.
So should we absolutely try to stop trolls from entering our site?

-mrtom

What are trolls???

Rookie - member
2 posts

never mind. I know what they are now grin

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