Dealing with lukers.
 

Hello:

I have noticed that ther are guys in my board that only log in the forum to write in a subforum. It is a social meetings subforum and they use it to meet other users. The main problem is that they don't even bother to introduce themselves in the forum, they don't help to grow our community.

How could I encourage them to be more active? Is there any mod that let me change their permissions based on their activity or so?

Thanks!

1. Turn off post count for that sub-forum
2. Introduce a rule that any account that's x days old and has zero post count will be deleted
3. Regularly delete those accounts

Parasites online are no different from parasites offline. You need to kill them. It has worked very well for the forums I own and the forums enjoy a superb reputation ... in part because of that policy. Readers of this thread can PM me if they don't believe that and want my forum URL to check it out for themselves!

If you have good content then your community will grow. Even if they log in infrequently its still page views and if you have sponsors or advertisers thats all that matters to them.

Good idea Macsee, I didn't think about turning off the post count in that subforum. Let me see.

RogerStout, having ag ood content is not enough. We want to convert that amount of lurkers into active members, just a matter of efficiency.