Did you ever encounter a situation where you or a staff member was stalked on your forum? If so, how did you deal with it?
Some forums have it set by default to update you everytime there is a like or response to a discussion you have created. Did you ever get over whelmed with forum alerts in your email box? How do you deal with this?
How much do you trust your forum members? For instance, could you trust forum members with the power to delete posts in their own threads? Or, do you think this power would be abused?
Who decides on new staff members on your forum? As forum owner/admin are you the only voice for determining new members? Or, do you allow forum staff to be voted in by the members?
What was the most number of posts you got on your forum in any one day? Or, maybe you got so many forum members signing in on one day. Please talk about it.
Should you shut down polls put up by members after a minimum time, such as one week, if the member did not specify a deadline for the poll? Or, do you just keep the poll open?
What techniques do you use to encourage more new forum posts from members? Do you offer prizes or encouragement? What are your methods?
On your forum, what is the average life span of a forum member? For instance, do most of your forum members stay for years, or just weeks/months?
On your forum, do you allow mods to create sticky posts, or is that just reserved for admin/owner?
Do you have a minimum age for a staff member? For instance, would you hire your teen or child to manage your forum, such as for spam prevention, assuming they were mature enough to handle the responsibilities?
If your forum was suffering with few posts and membership, would you try to merge with a more successful forum? And, would you ask to remain on as staff or just give up ownership to save the community?
Is it possible all forums are destined to die? Is there no way to keep a forum running for five, ten or fifteen years or more?
When is a good time to retire an admin? Or, do you just wait for the person to ask to retire?
On one forum where I was a long time member, they had numerous staff titles including admin, co-admin, mod and editor/writer. Are there any other usable staff titles for a forum? And, how many titles do you use on your...
Do you keep a public or private list of known forum trolls and trouble makers, including those banned from your forum or known trouble makers on other forums? Do you think this would discourage others from trolling, if t...
What if your forum members or staff need to contact you, have you included contact info for this purpose on forum? Or, do they just have to rely on your PM system?
Does it help to offer prizes, whether monetary or virtual to get more new posts on your forum? If so, what type of forum prizes would you offer? Try to think of some unusual prize ideas.
Writing a newsletter for your community is a good way to keep everyone up to date on the latest forum news. However, sometimes, there are private matters that need to be discussed with forum staff as a group. Do you th...
Is it useful to have many forum members on board with staff badges and maybe that could cause forum members to be on better behavior or at least discourage trolling and spam. Do you think this is true?
Is there a specific post count you want to see from moderators daily? And, how do you enforce a post count?
At what point would you close or lock a forum thread? For instance, what requirements must be met before a thread is locked?
What would you do if your most prolific forum poster left your forum?
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Did you ever encounter a situation where a well known forum member started asking for money from others, either on forum or in private messages? How did you handle the situation?
How many years of experience do you require from a mod before you will hire them for your forum? Or, would you simply hire someone with no experience?
Do you only expect spam moderation on posts from moderators or do you have other duties they are supposed to do?
Has this ever happened where your admin just disappeared one day? This happened about a year ago on my forum, but only because my admin had suffered a bad fall and eye injury. Later on, she returned to the forum to exp...
What reasons would you have for firing an admin or mod on your forum? And, what steps would you take before firing them, such as talking with the person and giving warnings?
For instance, did you ever take a vacation or go on sick leave and have to leave your forum unattended or at the mercy of your staff?
Do you have so many inactive staff members that it damages your forum? How do you deal with the problem of inactive staff?
For instance, are you only using Facebook and Twitter, or have you expanded to Pinterest and many other sites to fully utilize your social networking options?
We know Facebook and twitter are the biggest Social Networks in the world other are Instagram, Sound cloud, LinkedIN, But what are other Social Networks those are going Viral now a days? Is it Vine or KeeK on micro Vide...
Would you ever start a Facebook fan page purely out of love, such as because you are a fan of a certain actor or movie? Or, do all fan pages have to be started for money reasons?
On sites like Reddit, it's important to bookmark more than your own links, such as the 90/10 rule. It's all part of being a useful part of the Reddit community. But do most people observe this rule for bookmarking or j...
Do you keep track of the time spent daily bookmarking your links?
If your Facebook account was suspended or frozen by Facebook, what would you lose? For instance, would you lose access to friends? And, would you just start over with a new account?
Facebook prohibits marketing on a timeline but I've seen many people doing this, by linking to their Facebook page. Are there any other ways to subtly market via your own personal Facebook timeline?
What are the best toolbars to use for social networking and marketing?
Is it possible to only get traffic from Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest? How is this possible and is there any reason you would try this direct marketing type of traffic generation?
Is it true that you can now search Facebook statuses and posts? If so, this would be a big convenience, especially if you are looking for something in particular on a friend's timeline that you can no longer locate.
