How to keep your board professional

How to keep your board professional!
Here are the basics of how to keep your board professional:

Grammar
It is essential for your staff and administration to have correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation. To your members, no one wants to see:

"Hey, are j00 doin? we n0w got 100 members"

It shows disrespect towards your members and community and adds less professionalism to your board.

Staff:
Have active staff members that will contribute to the forums, and they do there job. As stated before, make sure each staff members uses correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Qualities of a bad staff member:

• One who spams
• One who doesn't follow your own board rules
• Not enough time he has contributed to the board
• No loyalty
• No creativity and innovation

The staff adds professionalism to the board and can widely contribute it.

Appearance:
The board's appearance adds up a wide amount of your professionalism. First of all have a custom skin, made by you or your staff, a custom skin helps it. Also make sure you have matching custom graphics to your skin. Also make your appearance matches your board's theme!

These are the three basics to keep your board professional. With the correct staff, grammar, and appearance, you'll have one professional board!

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wow nice guide!!!

Interesting, mind if I share this around my forum?

Thanks! And ty for joining.

Sure, ty for the rep!

Wow, that's short, simple, and to the point.

Stickied

Thanks, I'm starting to write another one now!

Can't wait to see more of your forum FAQ's, why not start a website

Interesting and motivating comment, I'll get back to you.

Or a blog containing your forum faq's and techniques, like this forum but scraping out the good content into your words ( I am not saying copy AU!)

Nice Im working on my grammar

Nice job on the guide!

another sweet guide!

Good guide. Now only if other inexperienced owners could read this, the world would be a better place

Nice guide.

Also, use a spam protection program. I've seen so many forums using phpBB2 and the like that have absolutely no protection against spam. That is the biggest thing that turns me off when visiting a forum.