Woman. Radio DJ, web designer, music lover. Love a good read, a movie that makes me think, a song that's been really worked on. Can't stand mediocrity and I try to run from it as fast as I can.
I would be rich if I got a cent for any thread I saw with the title: “What’s the best forum script?” After such a question is launched tens of members start the same “fight”: “VB is the best, no, wait, PhpBB is the best etc.”
Do you want an honest answer? They are all the best.
Few days ago one of my members on the Romanian Webmaster Forums Invatam.Net complained that he had some serious issues with a person who tried to spam the forums and got banned. The problem was also that my member lost his temper too and after kicking the spammer out made the bad decision of cursing him.
The spammer got mad too and threatened to attack the forums in all possible ways (spam bots and also hacking attempts). As you can imagine my member is shocked now to see what he got into. I responded to his question on the forums too, I think it would be a good idea to also mention my ideas to you here too, in case any of you might face something similar.
So .. The forum is under attack .. HOW CAN WE SURVIVE?
I think my fingers got numb for the tens of times I had to write the same thing regarding this ongoing battle: content or theme. In any site’s case, people start realising a good layout is very important, but still many forum owners have a problem understanding the obvious: A GOOD THEME is important too.
Why do we have to chose? Chose what? Why do you people think that ONLY content is what you need? You start a forum because you have ideas for content and the forums stays open because of that content. If you’re not able to keep the content updated and interesting, then do something else and stop working on a forum that would stand no chance. Any forum lives on content, that’s something we all know and should respect in the end.
