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tinkerbell · #16 07-20-2006, 10:17 AM

Before I we got our own forum I was a Forum manager of a very busy forum for a year. If I wanted to get an announcement noticed or a sticky or ordinary post noticed I would use a title to grab their attention ie:

"Only to be read by Senior members"
"Read this at your peril"
"Stop - dont open this thread in a hurry"

Have you noticed its human nature to look at something if we are told not to. We just cant help it. LOL.

Its best to use this method on announcements or stickies that are to be there for a while so that the members dont get used to it, even then I bet even members who know the trick still cant help themselves at times.

regards
Karen

PS Forgot to mention if you do use this to also start the post with some light humour, a one liner etc before you start your post/announcement in ernest.

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