Comments on: So You Want To Run An Online Forum? http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/04/18/so-you-want-to-run-an-online-forum/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:33:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jason Falls http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/04/18/so-you-want-to-run-an-online-forum/#comment-1527 Jason Falls Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:18:44 +0000 http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/?p=354#comment-1527 Patrick -- Thanks for the clarification, discussion and opportunity to review your book. I hope the post continues to drive some conversation about it. It's certainly worth the read. Congratulations on publishing and best of luck with the sales. Patrick — Thanks for the clarification, discussion and opportunity to review your book. I hope the post continues to drive some conversation about it. It’s certainly worth the read. Congratulations on publishing and best of luck with the sales.

]]> By: Patrick O'Keefe http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/04/18/so-you-want-to-run-an-online-forum/#comment-1525 Patrick O'Keefe Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:15:33 +0000 http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/?p=354#comment-1525 Jason, Wow! Thank you so much for taking a look at the book and for the kind words. I'm thrilled that you enjoyed it. Your post makes my day. :) Regarding that line, I can see how it can seem kind of extreme by itself, so I just wanted to explain it's context real quick. I was talking in reference to people you've already banned who are now attempting to circumvent that ban. My aim was to treat everyone reading my book as a reasonable, professional person. There are people running forums who will ban people who disagree with them, as you have seen, just as there are people running blogs who delete comments and ban people that disagree with them. In the book, though, I didn't want to talk to that person. When you ban someone from your forums, if you follow my philosophy, they have pretty much made you do it by spitting on your guidelines and your community. And then you have a small group of people who try to evade your ban, which is not appropriate. And some of those people view an account on your site as some sort of right. So, that's the angle I was speaking from. Thanks again! Patrick Jason,

Wow! Thank you so much for taking a look at the book and for the kind words. I’m thrilled that you enjoyed it. Your post makes my day. :)

Regarding that line, I can see how it can seem kind of extreme by itself, so I just wanted to explain it’s context real quick. I was talking in reference to people you’ve already banned who are now attempting to circumvent that ban. My aim was to treat everyone reading my book as a reasonable, professional person. There are people running forums who will ban people who disagree with them, as you have seen, just as there are people running blogs who delete comments and ban people that disagree with them. In the book, though, I didn’t want to talk to that person.

When you ban someone from your forums, if you follow my philosophy, they have pretty much made you do it by spitting on your guidelines and your community. And then you have a small group of people who try to evade your ban, which is not appropriate. And some of those people view an account on your site as some sort of right. So, that’s the angle I was speaking from.

Thanks again!

Patrick

]]> By: Jason Falls http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/04/18/so-you-want-to-run-an-online-forum/#comment-1523 Jason Falls Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:21:06 +0000 http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/?p=354#comment-1523 Tom -- Thanks for stopping by. Yes, it's easy to overlook the undertow of message board communities out there. I'm always shocked to see the amount of activity on them, but I guess I shouldn't be. The technology in the tool was way ahead of (and still is) most blogging software. You can respond, respond to a response or break off responses as their own threads, truly carrying spin-off conversations to infinity and beyond. I'd love it if blogging software adapted to include that kind of duplicity in commenting. It would make blog conversations more relevant and meaninful. Tom — Thanks for stopping by. Yes, it’s easy to overlook the undertow of message board communities out there. I’m always shocked to see the amount of activity on them, but I guess I shouldn’t be. The technology in the tool was way ahead of (and still is) most blogging software. You can respond, respond to a response or break off responses as their own threads, truly carrying spin-off conversations to infinity and beyond. I’d love it if blogging software adapted to include that kind of duplicity in commenting. It would make blog conversations more relevant and meaninful.

]]> By: Tom O'Brien http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/04/18/so-you-want-to-run-an-online-forum/#comment-1522 Tom O'Brien Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:07:16 +0000 http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/?p=354#comment-1522 Hi Jason: Nice post - wow, that is a lot of content! I especially like the opening sentence - "the online tool most responsible for the advent of social media is the forum or message board". With all the new technology and shiny objects, it is easy to overlook these communities - which from our perspective has the deepest veins of insight available for mining. TO'B Hi Jason:

Nice post - wow, that is a lot of content!

I especially like the opening sentence - “the online tool most responsible for the advent of social media is the forum or message board”.

With all the new technology and shiny objects, it is easy to overlook these communities - which from our perspective has the deepest veins of insight available for mining.

TO’B

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