In order to increase the quality --not quantity-- of forum members and their posts we have made several changes.
As always we welcome your input on the changes. Here is the list:
1. We added a two stage moderation process for registration. The first stage is an email verification process. The second stage is a manual review of the prospective members profile.
Question: How do you guys feel about adding some required fields such as Name, Company Name, or Location to the profile? This would eliminate anonymous users.
2. We have added some conditions on signatures.
- If a post has less than 20 words the signature will not display. This will decrease the number of external links to content ratio. And hopefully, it will increase the quality of the post by discouraging the "me too" and "I agree" type comments. Should the word count be raised? I think it should be at least 50, but I set it at 10 to start.
- A member must have a minimum of 10 posts before their signatures are activated. Personally, I think this should be higher. What do you think?
- If a member has more than one post on a page only the first post will show their signature. In other words, only one signature per member per page is allowed.
3. At the request of several members we have added a referral script. Visit your User Control Panel and you will see a link with your unique referral id and the following message:
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Please help us spread the word about "FamousAgents.com." When referring others to the community you can use the link below which includes your own unique referral ID.
Each time someone follows this link to FamousAgents.com and registers as a new member, your referral count will be incremented by one. The total number of referrals you currently have can always be viewed at the top of this box (next to FamousAgents.com Referrals) as well as in your Profile.
Please be courteous when promoting FamousAgents.com by not spamming other web sites and/or email addresses with your referral link just to gain referrals.
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I hope to have a referral contest soon. What would you folks like the prize to be? Cash, Toy, Gadget, Gizmo???
Again these changes are meant to reduce the "noise" and increase the substance. There are plenty of useless
link to me forums out there. We'd prefer to be different.
Our goal was never to become a "Big Board." We'd rather be an
Elite one.
Let's hear your thoughts. Thanks!
Updated 4-18-07: Please limit links in signatures to 2 or less. Thanks.