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Do I have other options to getting a domain name?
Until the domain registration lapses there is nothing else you can do. The only way you're going to get the domain name is if the current owner signs it over to you.
There is one caveat - if the name ...
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What are the advantages/disadvantages to requiring users to be logged in to post ads?
Requiring registration/logging in to post ads will add a bit of friction to the process. Adding friction will put some people off posting - it's one of the reasons that (except for posting questions ...
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How do you get a job as a Community worker? Can volunteering hurt your chances?
If the company is well run it shouldn't hurt your chances, as long as you do a good job. A badly run company might ask themselves why they'd bother paying you when you are already contributing for ...
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Why is moderation important?
Moderation of any site that lets users contribute content, regardless of whether it's on the Stack Exchange network or not, is important as it directly leads to a higher quality site. A higher quality ...
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Why is moderation important?
Here, click on this totally not malicious link unsuspecting users. Now, since there’s nobody looking at this answer since it isn’t that popular a question, it’ll stay here forever. Isn’t that just ...
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Do I have other options to getting a domain name?
I like @ChrisF's answer about buying up one or more URLs with different extensions. Additionally, have you thought about buying up URLs similar to the one you may not be able to buy? While SEO can't ...
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Formally promoted staff members, technically the same as before - is this a good idea?
@GregChase asked an interesting question about whether the problem is more with the former moderators lacking authority within the system to perform administrator tasks despite now holding the formal ...
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An indifferent server manager who is a close friend of the owner
You have a few options here. Some of these probably seem drastic, but you should consider what this extra work is doing to your free time. Presumably, this isn't a paid position, thus you are spending ...
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How do you get a job as a Community worker? Can volunteering hurt your chances?
Volunteering won't hurt your chances, as long as you are persistent, motivated and hard-working. From my personal experience, if you show them that you are ready to learn, and give relevant and fresh ...
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How does someone get a job as a community manager or social media person? How do you even define your skills?
I don't have the answer on how to find the job or polish your CV, but based on what I've been trying, you do NOT need previous experience with TikTok, Instagram, have 100k followers on Twitter. It ...
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What are the advantages/disadvantages to requiring users to be logged in to post ads?
Craigslist has a setup where you can post ads without an account (just an email address) or you can log into your account. I always use the account. Why? Because it remembers the ads I've posted in ...
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How do you get a job as a Community worker? Can volunteering hurt your chances?
Being a volunteer moderator shouldn't hurt your chances of getting a job in community management (as long as you did a good job as volunteer moderator, of course). If anything, it should strengthen ...
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How do you get a job as a Community worker? Can volunteering hurt your chances?
Volunteering isn't going to hurt your chances. I know people who made free work for quite a time in an anime official community/board and later got employed as administrators, community managers, ...
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Do I have other options to getting a domain name?
There are websites/services which try to convince an owner to sell the domain to you. I'm not mentioning here because I don't know if it is against the terms of use of SE (it would be like advertising)...
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