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Been playing around with a fair few blogs for a while related to this topic. UK Tiling Forum that is.

UK Tiling Forum - The Tiling Forum for the UK, but also overseas too. Hmmmmm​

We started our UK tiling forum back in 2006, April 2nd I think it was. So nearly coming up to 15 whole years being the tiling forum for the UK. Literally.

Our forum, like this Electrical Forum (now posting electrical news from any source by the way!), was the first to be online, and the first to gain traction. And generally when a forum does that, it works ongoing.

We have tried to setup forums for various other topics, I own a lot of automotive-related forums that do well, and 10 times that which don't do well. Likewise in the construction industry we have the three main forums doing well, and then a dozen not doing anything at all.

The first UK Tiling Forum, or UK Anything Forum, will always be THE forum for that said topic​

Providing the forum keeps the members in the loop with a main aim, and they all agree, the forum moves with the industry and it stays current and valid and reputable and on-topic.

How do people who run forums stop them from being 'spammed from the inside'?​

This is hard. So spam which we can categories in many ways, is basically posts that aren't wanted. So some examples might be (not saying they're always spam in our case, but as an owner of many forums I am member of many forum-management forums and we see this as a constant battle):-

Obvious ones that member spot

• ------ spam
• Buy a lady from Vietnam spam
• Gambling spam
• Spam aimed at our obvious user base

So mainly male-aimed fake automated user accounts being created using scripts that then hammer a forum with new threads, posts in reply to threads they've worked out are ranking well, or even post on-topic (in our case electrical related, on the UK tiling forum, tiling-related), and...

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