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I'm not even sure what this all means but thanks for inviting me (y)

Nomad invited me here. So I invited him to my forum....

A few years ago, it was an awesome feature of online forums, but it's just not as necessary as it was back in the day. Members can create their own discussions through PMs, which can limit who gets to discuss things there.

Not very happy as we have had a lot of spammers on our forum in 2024, but hopefully we will see some progress this year. Forcasting another few thousand members for this year.

Happy New Year 2025 Administrata! [ATTACH type=full]1058[/ATTACH]

Merry Christmas, everyone!

We also have a moderators/admin discussion (hidden from the public) forum where we can share if we are needing a break or if we are finding other issues that we want to discuss. I created a separate team (still staff but without mod powers) who are first responders, welcoming new members, and who respond positively across the board. They are basically an encouragement team. They will also give us a heads up when forum rules are being breached somewhere. As a thank you, I have provided them with their own private forum so that they can chat with each other (or me) and discuss anything they want without having to use the PM feature, and they seem to like that. This also frees the moderators up and gives us an opportunity to find out which in this group will make good potential moderators down the road.

Okay.

Well, I can't seem to add the smileys here, but I will try. They are usually animated

[ATTACH type=full]994[/ATTACH][ATTACH type=full]993[/ATTACH][ATTACH type=full]995[/ATTACH] I have a heap more...

I'm a newbie here, so I probably have the whole wish list thingy wrong: 1. I would love to go through your smileys; just to add some of mine. That would mean maybe an hour as a temporary admin here. That's it for now.

Dial up. The only form of internet access I had for awhile until I upgraded to broadband. Lol!