http://blog.zantherus.com The official blog of Zantherus Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:42:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Social Contract developed by Enlightenment philosophers such as John Locke in the 1600s and 1700s provided the people with a stable ground on which to base republican government on. The Social Contract stated that the leader and his people are obligated to serve each other's needs. If the leader's ... http://blog.zantherus.com/2008/12/25/the-social-contract-it-applies-to-forums-too/ Since the start of the advertising era in the Zathyus Network (and to an extent, other forums too), one thing has always remained prominent - forum packages. Many forums offer these things that are apparently supposed to help boost your forum's activity and help advertise. Each forum tends to have the ... http://blog.zantherus.com/2008/12/25/forum-packages-do-they-work/ Ziveeman and I spent several hours designing the new front page of Zantherus. It actually required more effort than I initially thought since I had to edit the template heavily to get exactly what I wanted. The final result looks really nice, I think. I like it a lot. It's Wordpress, ... http://blog.zantherus.com/2008/12/23/new-front-page/ I wish that there was a background check on creating forums. It would be easy; it would check to see how many forums you've created and then their shutdown date. Then depending on those stats, it would approve or deny your creation of a forum. If it denied it, it ... http://blog.zantherus.com/2008/12/23/stop-creating-forums/ We're ending the first year of the Zantherus Presidents. Having gone through a total of 5 different terms, they all had one thing in common: inactivity. Every term we have presidents promising certain things - more contests, a website, etc - but what do we end up getting instead? Nothing. In ... http://blog.zantherus.com/2008/12/22/will-the-presidential-curse-end/ Post exchanges are something every administrator faces when developing his or her community. Some forum owners embrace the act of post exchanges, actively participating in them, while others are adamantly against the very idea of forcing posts. But first, let's start, what exactly is a post exchange? Similar to traffic exchanges, ... http://blog.zantherus.com/2008/12/22/post-exchanges-yay-or-nay/ Yeah it's been a long time since I've posted a blog. Anyway just wanted to post what Ziveeman and I have been doing at Zantherus. Well, to be frank, it hasn't been too much but it is enough to take away precious posting time on Zantherus, so I hope the members ... http://blog.zantherus.com/2008/12/22/new-post-and-about-those-ads/