[AdipexAdipex]

Hmm I like the idea of the restriction but don't like the signature viewing restriction

I was just browsing through as a guest before logging in and everyone's signature had this in it

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

To have links in your signature I understand having a post count but to view them?

[affozyBoomi]

Hmm I like the idea of the restriction but don't like the signature viewing restriction

I was just browsing through as a guest before logging in and everyone's signature had this in it

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

To have links in your signature I understand having a post count but to view them?

Hey Carl, yep that was a bug while we were implementing the new restrictions.. that one is gone now

[SoorgoBardy]

I think the restrictions are good - although some people do want to just drop into forums to get some quick advise. Domains can be spelt out to get around this restriction so it shouldn't matter if that is the case. 5 posts isn't much anyway - just make sure you contribute.

[SoorgoBardy]

I think this point made here is pretty valid. I pop in for a browse but don't always log in until I'm going to post so it would be good to access all the links just to see who's doing what or if that paticular post is something worth replying to....

[estheticianI]

With any restrictions of this type there will always be people who just spam their way through 5, 10, 25 or however many posts are required, but the idea is to stop those who just come here and post their spam once or twice.

For those who do try to spam their way though, we will be vigilant in deleting anything that is clearly spam and adds no value to the community.

[tilmprarnerit]

More users and more conversations.

I have been following a specialist car forum for about 14 years and it keeps growing. What they did, and still do is have a .pdf file for download with the site details and an invite to join (business card size). I can then download and print these and when I see a relevant car or meet an owner I hand them the card.

If they join and talk about their car it growsthe content. Perhaps we can do the same and invite business owners and contacts in our community to join and share.

[defenderfors]

can include categorize related groups like bookkeeping service, accounting, financial services etc. ?

[mikelangr]

Yeah. It's one of those things. Always people cruising the site. Lots of Members. But engagement needs to ramp up.

So don't be shy people. It's the internet you know ... nobody really knows who you are. LOL.

[boizzones]

I think such restriction is more reasonable:

* On all other boards, for the first five days you can only reply to threads.

* After 5 days if you get to 25 posts, you are granted the ability to start new threads.

[Heacechig]

In addition to more people, I thing greater variety of people (and therefore ideas) is also useful.

[JesikaFlpk]

We need a website critic main thread, and more activity,
I made a post here about it:
How AussieTycoon could improve

[fudelholf]

A few things I think can improve the forum include:

• Upgrade to vBulletin.
• More users.
• Connected website with articles and other features (classifieds?)

That's all I can think of at the moment.

[affozyBoomi]

Hey HWT... so maybe a place where members can list their business?

Have you also checked out one of this months free advertisers on the side -->

One of our members ABD runs an online business directory.

[affozyBoomi]

Hey Mat,

Thanks for the feedback.. we are already using vbulletin!
More users, well we are trying our best to get people on here and interact with us, have you got any suggestions?

We are working on providing some more articles and interviews as well, if you have anything to contribute of course feel free to post it.

[valiumcheapll]

GROUPS ? - either I am not navigating correctly or I have initiated the only group in here? Maybe look to have Groups more visible instead of tucked away as a tab in the navigation menu - if the Groups were more visible then you would likely encourage more people to become members of a group [or start their a new one], which then gives continuity to a topic "theme" (which may have been posted 100 times at different times but the threads are disjointed due to time and the fluidity of members etcetera, etcetera .

That is the problem I have in forums anyway, finding info on a particular subject without asking the same question asked 37 times in different topic threads. Groups can have topic specific sub-menus can't they? For example, a Group called "SEO that will have Gugel Smokin' ...." could have sub sections like linking, writing techniques, cms, images, bla bla bla ..... in the same way the forum has. So a group is a forum within a forum right?

cheers,
Mike

[Bonioners]

A free Australian business directory - not part of the forum, a separate thing.

There's plenty of them out there but more never hurts.

[RayFairhurst]

I agree with HWT. This restriction has just come in to play to prevent spam and to sort out those who are here to contribute to the community vs those who are out to link build and spam. It's a real pain to have to trawl through posts to find the genuine ones.

[Patgaepx]

What about some sort of blog or article section where you release news on whats happening in the entrepreneurship market in Australia?

Have you thought about integrating your logins with facebook using Facebook connect?

[RedImmik]

I think it would be great to get on some high profile guest speakers to provide us all with some inspiration. More users would be good to, so I will spreed the word for you on my twitter account.

Other then that I think this forum is great and has a lot of room to grow for the better

[Bonioners]

I don't like the way posts are displaying barely 2 inches wide. It makes the longer posts incredibly hard to read