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Giant City State Park here in Southern Illinois- Shawn Gossman
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- Forum: Off-Topic Hangout
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Themes Gallery of SMF themes
The header is what caught my attention the most.- Shawn Gossman
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- Forum: Platform Empowerment & Customization
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General Suicide and Self-Harm Threats
^This is exactly it. YouTube and Google aren't doing it for some kind of mental health awareness thing - they're doing it for the money.- Shawn Gossman
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- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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The Hiking Forum
This thread is for the general discussion of the item The Hiking Forum. Please add to the discussion here.- Shawn Gossman
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- Forum: Community Showcase
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Blogging Collective [Deleted]
This thread is for the general discussion of the item Blogging Collective. Please add to the discussion here.- Shawn Gossman
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- Forum: Offline Websites
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Themes Gallery of SMF themes
This one is such a beautiful theme! https://smfthemedemos.levertine.org/index.php?media/item/zentoa.224/- Shawn Gossman
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- Forum: Platform Empowerment & Customization
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General Suicide and Self-Harm Threats
I've seen this a few times. Members of a forum who are depressed or undergoing some form of mental health crisis. They threaten to kill or harm themselves. Many will do this in the open forum. Some may be faking it for attention, but there is always a chance they are not. How do you, as a...- Shawn Gossman
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- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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Foundation Requiring Strong Passwords
How do you all feel about requiring that your forum members have strong passwords? How about enabling features such as mandatory 2FA logins? (Two-Factor) How about for staff members, especially those who can get into your admin control panels? Do you think more forum admins need to take...- Shawn Gossman
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Guide How to analyze your SEO competitors to find opportunities
Great article. There are some really cool AI SaaS services out there that you can use to monitor your competitors' changes. Changes like any website change, new newsletters, social media posts, posting frequency, time/day post changes, etc. To me, it's an ultimate competitive intelligence...- Shawn Gossman
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Are you always lazy at night?
I'm more internet productive at night but for my day job which is complex, I'd rather have a fresh morning start.- Shawn Gossman
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- Forum: Off-Topic Hangout
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XenForo What xenforo add ons do you use?
Just make sure you keep them updated. Each addon you install is an extra potential backdoor into your forum. Is there is a security problem in the code and it goes on without being updated, you might regret having it on there. I'm really super picky on the addons I use for that reason. I...- Shawn Gossman
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- Forum: Platform Empowerment & Customization
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Leadership Building Your Admin Team: How many are too many?
I personally only have one admin. That admin is me. The only other personnel I add are moderators. I feel this is a better approach unless, of course, you need a technical admin or you and someone else are co-owning a forum. I have yet to go in on a co-owning forum in all of my years of being on...- Shawn Gossman
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- Forum: Leadership & Community Management
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Case Study Writing a Writing Community
I'm glad because I was falling down a long, dark road. Getting angry easily. Made mistakes back then, especially with friends. Glad to have moved on and matured from that life. Now I'm chasing Gnomes LOL- Shawn Gossman
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How often do you check Google Analytics/Search Console?
I have Monster Insights plugged in for my blogs. I like it because it gives me my analytics (GA4 integration) right on my blog and for each post. Still, I don't use it to capacity, and I should since I pay for that plugin. I'm really good at SEO, marketing, social media, and all that. I...- Shawn Gossman
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- Forum: Website Administration & Management
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Case Study Writing a Writing Community
You're right! I run a blog about blogging, I always tell people to do at least 1.5K to 2K words. However, I often write the bigger posts for the value side of it, and while I do some SEO on it, the main goal is for it to be an ultimate guide for the reader. I'm a firm believer in sentence...- Shawn Gossman
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Community Chat Thread
It is! This state park does a lot of events. They always invite me to an outdoor fair to setup my Hiking with Shawn booth and even pay me to put on a presentation each year. I usually do something unique for the season. In 2025, I'm going to do a presentation on chasing frozen waterfalls. I...- Shawn Gossman
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- Forum: Off-Topic Hangout
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Community Chat Thread
Just got back from hiking. A state park had a Gnome Roam challenge. Yes, really. LOL. We completed all 7. Myself and my wife. Did about 5 miles total on 6 trails. One Gnome was at a Trailhead because the trail was closed for hunting. It's currently shotgun season here. Got a cool patch for...- Shawn Gossman
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- Forum: Off-Topic Hangout
