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How to handle gender and sexual orientation on a form with select boxes more inclusively?
The existing question and the answers for it are not satisfying when one wants to be more inclusive.
Gender as Male, Female or No Answer works for some sites, but not others.
Taking the view that ...
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Which approach for big community (large number of members) but in small groups (2-4) persons?
Started asking this: Another Question
Thought that the idea of implementing this in a forum would be a good idea but its not.
I am desperately searching for ways to create (hopefully) a large ...
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How to save a forum that is losing activity?
With the rise of sites like Reddit, Stack Exchange, etc. the bulletin board has slowly decreased in activity. I run a nonprofit security, ethical hacking and programming forum that was once very ...
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How can I stop users from leaving after they are told they violated a rule?
I run a small forum, and occasionally we get someone who will break a minor rule, e.g. they post something in the wrong forum. When this happens we'll usually send them a message explaining to them ...
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The concept of reputation and its effects on an online community
Having recently introduced the concept of a '+rep' button to an online community I manage, I've noticed a couple of things. It functions as the thanks button does on vBulletin (user says 'thanks' to a ...