Spam is the scourge of the internet and can do significant damage to your community if it is left unchecked. There are two kinds of spammers to worry about: spambots and human spammers. Bots are unintelligent software programs that automate the posting of spam and can usually be easily defeated since they are rigid in [...]
Editor: In this two-part post, Patrick Groome, the administrator for the Penny Arcade forums, shares some of his community management best practices. Part 1 of this post can be found here. 4. Creating too many categories Over specialising categories is a common problem that manifests itself differently in communities old and new. It most commonly [...]
There are two ways of integrating your Vanilla forum to your website: customize the theme so that it looks like your website and point a sub-domain at it or embed it into a page on your website. (Like this.) Embedding your forums has the advantage of integrating your community forum with minimal theming effort but [...]
Ranks are a great feature that can be used to limit abilities and/or reward members in your community based on Vanilla’s reputation system. You should consider using Ranks if you… Want to restrict what new members can do until they have proven themselves; Want to reward top members with public recognition and additional abilities; Want [...]
Vanilla can be integrated to Facebook and Twitter to allow members to register to your Vanilla Forum using their Facebook or Twitter account and to enable the option to share comments they create. Encouraging social sharing is a great way to attract more people to your forum community. Setting up Facebook integration requires creating an [...]
Vanilla's next gen forum platform lets you build a community that will really engage your audience to drive participation and advocacy.
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