http://www.cwire.org/2006/02/12/new-cyberwyre-forum/ Making A Living 100% Online Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:51:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.cwire.org/2006/02/12/new-cyberwyre-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-49678 mzdev.net » 8 Steps to Create a Community out of your Blog Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:01:02 +0000 http://www.cwire.org/2006/02/12/new-cyberwyre-forum/#comment-49678 [...] Another idea to increase the amount of user-submitted content on your blog is to start a forum revolving around the topics which are discussed on your site. Back in February of 2005, I tried this idea with little success. The forum was quickly filled with very inappropriate spam messages (which I have still yet to fully clean up) and it did not get as much traffic as I had originally hoped. I will be creating a new forum to try this once again and will make the following adjustments to my approach: 1. I will make a mandatory “captcha” spam filter on all forum posts & new registrations. Captcha tests are those fuzzy image boxes with some strange text in them which you need to type out to make sure that you are human. [...] [...] Another idea to increase the amount of user-submitted content on your blog is to start a forum revolving around the topics which are discussed on your site. Back in February of 2005, I tried this idea with little success. The forum was quickly filled with very inappropriate spam messages (which I have still yet to fully clean up) and it did not get as much traffic as I had originally hoped. I will be creating a new forum to try this once again and will make the following adjustments to my approach: 1. I will make a mandatory “captcha” spam filter on all forum posts & new registrations. Captcha tests are those fuzzy image boxes with some strange text in them which you need to type out to make sure that you are human. [...]

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