This is an article discussion thread for discussing the Earners Forum article, "Starting an Online Community"

Pretty basic article, no offense (who wrote it? couldn't see authors name). You might like to mention teambuilding (moderators), establishing a core-user base, how to juggle the balance between on-topic and off-topic posts (this one is so badly mismanaged 99% of the time).

I wrote it. It was intended towards beginners. I wanted to focus on the actual set up of the forum and tghe decisions involved in that rather how to run a forum.

Fair enough.
As a beginners article, it's solid.

/Urgh, I hate these smilies, I never can get one that adequately expresses the intended emotion.

Some points help Thanks!

Thanks for this helpful tip.

yeah this is helpful, i'm a beginner I need to know this..

nice article and it surely usable for all the new peolple who wants to run a forum. Great job.