Running and moderating an online community is a tough job, especially when you come across situations where you need to stop a certain thread/discussion to prevent a rift between members of your community.
Martin Reed recently wrote an interesting post on this, titled “Should communities ban the discussion of certain topics?”
Martin has managed to hit the [...]

Here is a list of 5 vBulletin modifications which should be present on every vBulletin forum:
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A while back I had posted about the menace of targeted manual spamming, how this is becoming a larger issue than bot produced spamming.
For a while now I am coming across threads like these on Digital Point, where these spammers are recruiting people to spam forums. The worrying bit is, since they are only paying [...]

What do you do when a spammer comes to your forum and posts spam?
Most likely you would go ahead and ban that spammer’s id and delete the post/thread. However it is only time before the spammer comes back, with another user id and spams your forum again!
While you can go ahead and ban that spammer’s [...]

Lately I have been observing a steady increase in targeted forum spamming; my travel forum is being spammed by people who belong to the travel niche!
On one had it means my forum is gaining popularity, on the other hand dealing with this type of spamming has become time consuming. This is due to the fact [...]