Moderation Observations, part 2
Back in October I wrote my moderation observations, and optimistically titled the post “part 1,” presumably believing that I had enough profound tho...
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Alex’s Laws of Internet Argumentation
So it seems a thread on SFN inspired me to create Alex’s Law of Internet argumentation. I’d like to elaborate a bit on that, and propose a new Law o...
Moderation Observations, part 1
I’ve been a moderator here at SFN for almost four years now, and an administrator for about three. (The promotion to administrator was rather ad-hoc and I...
WordPress Upgrade
WordPress MU on blogs.scienceforums.net has now been upgraded to WordPress MU 2.7. You should notice that your admin screen has been drastically re-vamped and r...
Progress Is Being Made
Back in November 2007 we had 5,977 posts made on SFN during the entire month. Not bad, although at our peak in May 2005 we had 12,000. Well, I just checked the ...
Statistics and Stuff
Over on SFN, we’ve been interested in figuring out how to stimulate growth and post volume to allow SFN to expand. It’s an interesting challenge ...
WordPress Statistics Plugin Installed
For those of you interested in how many people visit your blog, go to your blog admin panel and click Plugins. You should see a plugin called FireStats enabled ...
How It Works
Some of you might be wondering how we linked SFN and WordPress together. Others are just glad that it does work. For those of you that wonder, here’s the ...
SFN Blogs Updated
I just updated the SFN blogs to the latest version of WordPress MU (1.3.3, which corresponds to WordPress version 2.3.3) for both security reasons and the new f...
SFN Blogs Opened
We’re now offering free blogs to everyone on SFN. If you have 50 posts and would like to talk about something science-related (not in every post, but in g...