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On most Internet forums, it is frowned upon to ‘bump’, ‘resurrect’, ‘necropost’, etc., that is to post in a thread that has been idle for a reasonably long time. On many forums this is a bannable offe …

Sometimes the owners or overseers of a community need to remove someone popular -- suspend a top user, boot a popular moderator, or fire a key employee. As we've seen, sometimes this causes an immedi …

Necropost: A necropost is a message that revives (as in necromancy) an arbitrarily old thread, causing it to appear above newer and more active threads. This practice is generally seen as a br …

Firstly, this is an issue where you have to do something. Allowing a user to stay when they are knowingly in breach of the ToS means that you are devaluing the ToS, and whenever someone else breaks it …

According to my forum statistics, I have a large number of users. In actuality, I have a fraction of those users that are active. I'd like to send a "We miss you, please come back" type message to use …

Usually I like moderator actions and the reasons for them to be public. The community can examine them and is either convinced that they are correct, or they can make an argument why they were not. B …

One of the users (let's call him Adam) of a site I own told me that there is an underage user (let's call him Brian) on our site; the Terms of Service say that you have to be 18 years old to use the s …

One possibility: Spam. In the case of blogs, at least, I have found that monitoring comments on old posts for spam can be quite a task when the blog goes back several years. The universe of possible s …

Give them a reason. Just "I miss you" is boring and is ignored. Do you know why the people left your forum? Or are there any improvements since then? Maybe you changed your design or you have new fluf …

I won't speak to your own particular situation; there's not enough information to make any kind of judgement on whether the moderators are right or not. But as a general rule, I can think of at least …

The first step here is one that I can't help you with: know your rights, responsibilities, and expectations. If you're running a site, or if you're part of a team, know what's expected of you, and wha …

How should I behave as a user when I'm also a moderator, especially in cases of inter-user disagreement over content or policy? I have my own reasons for thinking I'm right, of course, but I don't wa …

My site focuses on the controversial topic of hard-boiled-egg-breaking. Most of my users are from the hit-round-ends school, but a few are from the hit-pointy-ends school. These two groups struggle …

I'm a member of an online community built around a certain piece of open-source software. It's the place where we discuss development, bugs, etc - i.e. it's a place where we talk about code rather tha …

First, some perspective: I was a member of a community about 5 years ago. At that time, I violated community rules and was issued a permanent ban. When this occurred, it took some time to get over, bu …