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Here is a good article I found on mashable and I thought I would share it here with you guys. 1. Make It Easy to Participate 2. Be a Leader 3. Interact With the Community 4. Welcome Newbies 5. Identify and Nurture Power Users 6. Showcase and Cross Promote UGC 7. Reward Contributors 8. Be Timely About Posting UGC 9. Allow Profile Creation 10. Engage With Popular Existing Communities Check out the full article to read how to execute these suggestions.

Did anyone here lose a cat? Aint it so CUTE?? It sure does look mean though. But who knows, it might be very loveable. http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc194/kevcj/1237859173180.jpg

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Help, i'm trying to log in. Resent my details, clicked the link in the mail and when I again enter the reCAPTHA code and click submit, I get this error: [#2013]

Congrats on your latest AA promotion, Brandon. http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/424/aavodkasm.jpg :D

Here in East Texas the summer heats can stay in the 90s day and night. During july and august day time temps can get in the upper 90s, lower 100s with 90% humidity. I guess that is why I am glad to see fall and winter get here. The cool fronts have started blowing through, but we have yet to get a real cold front.

What are your top 3 favorite movies? I'm going to list mine, so here they are: #1: Crank 1 & 2 #2: White Chicks (for those of you who have not seen it, it's not a porno haha) #3: SwordFish Those were in no particular order, but what are your favorite films?

Hello, Greetings from NY. Just thought I'd stop by and check the place out - looking good. :)

Is there a way to set permissions so that Guests are unable to view the box at the bottom of the screen that lists Active Users, Board Statistics, etc? Thanks.

According to the forum its your birthday so I thought I congratulated you on your birthday, hope its a good one. :)

Hi, I'm AJ. Look forward to getting to know you all. :)

Hey everyone, just checking the place out since the new owner took over! It looks fantastic!

First!!! Maybe the first time i've ever actually been first

The name is Phenetic or Phen for short, or Nick if you want to get personal lol. I am quite fluent with IPB, although I tend to use vB more often because I am in love with it's styling system. I admined a forum over at BustedQuad which branched off of WrestleZone, we did successful until it was hacked and now I'm in the process of making a new site for everyone. I have admined quite a few different website, some small, some big, some were huge with over a million posts. I love helping new webmasters and definitely look to help with graphic and management problems in here.

Hi, I just signed up. I'm Olly, I'm from England and I'm 20 years old. I currently have one forum, but it's not using IPB... so I'll just sneak out quietly to the rest of the forum :unsure: I do like IPB though :) :lol:

just wondering how many languages you can speak? I'm from Wales in the UK and I'm fluent in Welsh as well as English obviously. Can anyone else speak more than one language?

The trouble with The Internet is that imbeciles are allowed to touch it. These same imbeciles like nothing more than repeating the same annoying phrases over and over until they very much stop being funny. This film takes a look at which phrases should be banned, and suggests more clememt alternatives to save you wearing out the same keys on your keyboard over and over again. Step 1: Calling People 'Sir' You, sir, fail at Teh Internets' Ooh, look at me. I just called you sir'. I'm a hoity-toity London city gent circa 1845, don't cha know? What Ho, pip pop. Faux flattery like calling someone sir' unnecessarily doesn't make you some sort of smart, plucky, flat-cap wearin…

Here is a video sweeping the internet called "I need a handjob" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8nsKXm0JyE

What are your thoughts on the swiftness of the search. Its hard to get a good compare between vB and IP in this area because I am unsure of either site hardware. I bring this up because the 'view new content' (only search I have really used yet) seems really lethargic on all the sites I have been on. Considering how swift and responsive the rest of the sites seem to be, the search seems like its choking up somewhere. Or is it just me? To me, search responsiveness (and of course relevance) is crucial. Couple other things: 1- Is there a way to not show already read threads in the 'new content' results (kind of like vB) or do I just need to get used to it again? …

From an end user standpoint, I really like how the editor toolbars slide in when you click in the Fast Reply field. A similar action happens when you edit a post. It feels a lot slicker than vBulletin's quick reply and edit tools. The only thing I really don't like about the default layout is the new topic and reply buttons are right aligned..We read from left to right. I suppose that can just be changed in a template though. Just my .02, Dan