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You should also set up your forum to ask the users registering a random question, and make it a word answer e.g do not put 'What is 2+5' as the question, make it something like 'What is the capital of America'. This should stamp out all automatically generated spam. Do not use the question with numbers in as some of the autospam bots have even been programmed to look for and answer such questions. Yes that really is how sad some of these people are.


Details on job openings, requirements and experience needed, and how to apply will be included in official hiring announcements to be released in the spring. The electronic mailbox inquiries will assist the USPTO swiftly relay the up-to-the-minute job information to members of the public.


Well, you can if you really must, but remember that the Internet forum has the same drawback as email: the reader can't see your expression or gestures. The smile, shrug or grimace which can lift your comment from serious to humorous will be missing and your message will be something which the reader has to interpret. If the reader gets it wrong, you might very well find that you just started your very own Internet forum flame war quite unintentionally. You can safely tell a joke on a forum (provided that your joke's content is appropriate) but sarcasm and irony are dangerous and best avoided.


Forum marketing can be a great way to promote your business. There are some right ways to do this and there are some ways that will get you banned from the forum. Here are some key principles to follow to keep from getting on the bad side of the moderators.


Quite frankly, you're better off not emailing it at all, because it usually just goes into cyber space, and then it's all about the hiring company - but unfortunately, besides not sending it at all, sometimes that's your only choice.


In posting new topics, you should understand first the idea of the whole discussion board. In this way, you can think of where you can post your topic.


An important forum marketing strategy is where you first introduce yourself before starting a thread or comment posting. When you carefully observe, you will realize that most online forums advocate for new members to before anything else introduce themselves. This is achieved by setting aside a segment where new users post introductory threads.


Things to consider are to only allow links to other sites from peoples forum signatures. If people repeatedly put links in their posts then you should class this as spam and delete it. Repeated offenders should be banned and all of their posts deleted.