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Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards
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Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards

by Patrick O'Keefe
April 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
320 pages
9h 6m
English
AMACOM
Content preview from Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards
DEVELOPING YOUR COMMUNITY
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making some adjustments. In this section I’ll explain some of the more com-
mon choices.
Software Options
These are options that deal primarily with the configuration of your commu-
nity software.
Requiring Registration to Participate
You should require users to reg-
ister to post and participate in your community. Besides opening up a world
of options to your members, being a part of a community means just that—
being a part of it and having an account that everyone can identify with. This
allows all posts and activity from a given account to be associated with said
account. It eliminates impersonation and allows you to effectively deal with
troublemakers (through bans, etc.). If a user doesn’t have an account, it gets
noticeably ...
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ISBN: 9780814412930