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How to Start a New Online Forum and Make It Successful
Starting a new online forum can be exciting - but getting people to actually use it is a different challenge.
A forum needs members to create discussions, ask questions, share experiences, and respond to one another. But when a forum is brand new, there may not be enough activity to give new visitors a reason to join.
So how do you get a new forum off the ground and turn it
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Which forum CMS lets authors moderate their own topics? built-in or extension?
UltimateWB has a built-in forum app. Besides letting admins/moderators to moderate topics/posts, it also allows the authors to edit their own topic posts/posts - but not the posts of others, even if it is for their topic. They can however report any topics/posts, and in that way moderate. You can set a number of reports by visitors/members to automatically remove a post.
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What are some ways to create an online community using blogs and forums?
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I am so excited to move my website from Wix to UltimateWB. I will be having a blog and forum, so I'm wondering how you think I should use the two apps together to create a really good online community?
A blog and a forum can work very well together when you're building an online community. The key is to give each one a different role rather than treating them as duplicate parts of your website.
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