CommunityAdmins.com Community Review User Guidelines

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This forum is for community reviews. If your site does not feature a community of some sort, it cannot be posted here. Below you will find a few guidelines applying to both people asking for reviews and giving them.

Posting Your Community

Be sure to present your URL in a prominent place. If possible, link directly to your community.

If you have specific things you want people to look at, mention them.

It is recommended that you actually spend time customizing your community before posting it. Change the look of your site, install hacks that your userbase will appreciate - integrate them in an aesthetically pleasing way and customize it to your liking. Don't just install your chosen software and post it with its basic look and a different logo. This will hurt you in many ways.

You will be criticized. Your site isn't perfect (no site is) and that is why you are posting here. Sometimes the opinions of users may be blunt. You can choose to ignore them or accept them, but you should not get angry at them. Reviews are made to help you improve aspects of your site, so most reviews aren't going to make you feel better - just hopefully allow you to improve your site.

Your community cannot require people to login just to view it.

Do not use your review thread as a means of recruiting staff members.

Like any thread, your thread is subject to our User Guidelines, so communitys that are featured in the Community Review forum must not cover anything inappropriate for this community.

If these guidelines are not followed, the review thread will be removed.

Reviewing Communities

Read the first post in the thread, the one by the person requesting a review. If he or she is looking for feedback on specific aspects of the site, try to fulfill these requests.

Most users would prefer to hear comments about specific areas of the site, rather than general observations.

Honesty is great, but be sure to be respectful when you are criticizing. Do not make it a personal issue. Stick to the content and design of the website.

You may want to include information about your operating system, browser, screen resolution, etc.

Do not comment on the community's subject matter. Do not comment on the size of the community (posts or members or how few one may have).

Your posts in this forum still fall under our basic User Guidelines. Your posts must be polite and free of inappropriate content.

If a guideline is broken, the post will be removed. If this behavior continues, action will be escalated.

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