If You Were A Moderator

[Harti]

How about a live chat? Think that would add to the "we're a caring community" feeling.

 

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[iAmTrade]

People lie, at all times throughout this forum/deceive etc.

How about a new badge or something on a person's profile?

"Verified Successful" or just "Verified Member" something like that.

Only way to get that verified badge is to actually have the person verified, maybe through a video walkthrough to bank records or something to that extent? Maybe the verifier can just be a moderator like yourself @Vigilante

Not everyone needs to do it, make it a paid verification- you want that badge of "multi-millionaire here" than you pay the 200$ for the verification process, and must pass such process.

Than again, maybe this isn't a good idea, we want community involvement- which this may deter some- not wealthy/yet very very helpful people.

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How about- a membership program to be offered? That will help business currently running and somewhat profitable?

How about a membership program where it will help businesses earning 100k profit, make it to 500k or 1 million in profits?

MAYBE forget the membership part and charge a consulting fee as a percentage of increased profits?

I only suggest such- because they way- we can, I am certain- take a few members here, put them in a group and help someone make it* as we profit as well, for our help?

Above all else---and this I would surely do**

Gather the minds of very smart, very actionable and dedicated people- an internet marketer, a brick and mortar business guy, an eccomerce guy, a finance guy, a x and a y and z...AND start a company from scratch. Each putting in $5k, 10k 15k to make it happen. If one can't- they obviously shouldn't be in the group.

Each with equal voting and earning rights. Have a "head" most trusted individual as CEO @MJ DeMarco

Come up with a new business to take from GROUND ZERO to $1,000,000- PER PERSON INVOLVED. 5 people in the group? Goal to get to 5 Million by the end of the 2nd year.


That above is what I would do. It would obviously take time to figure out the service you will offer, I would want to make sure it involves those people in the group greatly, ie eccomerce guy in there @biophase than I would hope eccomerce would be involved in the business.

You understand my point...(would love to be a part of the above group, as a dedicated employee etc).

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What I see here is a "POOL" of very smart, aspiring, dedicated people.

I do not see this pool of people ACTUALLY "working together" to REACH A COMMON GOAL... $$$

I do hope this is done to some extent- I see it as immensely helpful/smart/highly potentially profitable to be able to set this up @Vigilante

What I say can be worth gold.

Feel free to ask for more details, especially about the above business-collaboration- as I have something in mind that can be started with a great market size.


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[amp0193]

How about a live chat? Think that would add to the "we're a caring community" feeling.

I think this would be difficult to moderate, and seems like it would turn into a shit show. I feel like any noob wanting to ask a question for the 100th time might just post it in the live chat instead, hoping for an even faster response.


That being said, the most value I've gotten from this forum is the private chat groups that have spun off of different threads.

So, I like the idea, in theory. There would need to be channels for off-topic though, or the whole thing would be dominated by noise.

 

[Sunscreen]

If this hasn't already been mentioned maybe it would be nice if there were flares of different fastlane paths under your name. It would make it a bit more personalised and perhaps get people more familiar with each other.

 

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[Christos]

Hello from Germany,

reading a ton of very useful threads the last months, after a while I get always the same problem. At the end of each post there are some useful buttons like "Bookmark" ,"Like" and "rep transfer". For me one very important button is missing: "top of page" . Because sometime you are in the middle of the page and realise that you want to go one page back or forward and you have to scroll all the way back.

I am reading most of the time on my mobile or tablet and it would be very helpful.
Thanks in advance.
@moderator : can you please delete my post in the section "suggestions"?

Chris

 

[Vigilante]

Hello from Germany,

reading a ton of very useful threads the last months, after a while I get always the same problem. At the end of each post there are some useful buttons like "Bookmark" ,"Like" and "rep transfer". For me one very important button is missing: "top of page" . Because sometime you are in the middle of the page and realise that you want to go one page back or forward and you have to scroll all the way back.

I am reading most of the time on my mobile or tablet and it would be very helpful.
Thanks in advance.
@moderator : can you please delete my post in the section "suggestions"?

Chris

done

and good idea

 

[FastNAwesome]

2. Moving the whole forum to "https" would bring
more trust to the whole experience in my opinion (but
I know it's not an easy work).

Plus it soon may affect how the website is seen/marked in search results

http://webdesignledger.com/google-http-websites-unsafe/

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

Plus it soon may affect how the website is seen/marked in search results

http://webdesignledger.com/google-http-websites-unsafe/

Source? I see nothing from Google other than a link to site that promotes SSL.

My BS meter is ringing.

 

[drifter]

Not sure if FNA is referring to this?
https://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal.html

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Not sure if FNA is referring to this?
https://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal.html

A free blog account isn't considered a source. A source would be from a Google rep or a page from a Google domain. I did a cursory search and saw all third party claims, many from folks selling SSL services.

 

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[FastNAwesome]

Source? I see nothing from Google other than a link to site that promotes SSL.

My BS meter is ringing.

Sorry, I probably should have looked deeper, I notice now that there's no source.

I'm in no way related to it, so sorry again, will check things better in the future. Will try not to be so fast on posting links.

EDIT: I think the blog @drifter linked to is actually an official blog, but not sure.

 

[theag]

Vigilante, I quit contributing to this forum because you "Liked" every attack on me by Waisech and others. I went from looking forward to contributing, to never wanting to add value to it. If you want to make this forum better, I suggest you start with yourself.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Sorry, I probably should have looked deeper, I notice now that there's no source.

I'm in no way related to it, so sorry again, will check things better in the future. Will try not to be so fast on posting links.

EDIT: I think the blog @drifter linked to is actually an official blog, but not sure.

Oh no worries man, it's not a big deal but definitely something to have on the radar, true or not.

 

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[drifter]

Sorry, I probably should have looked deeper, I notice now that there's no source.

I'm in no way related to it, so sorry again, will check things better in the future. Will try not to be so fast on posting links.

EDIT: I think the blog @drifter linked to is actually an official blog, but not sure.

It is indeed Google's official webmaster blog...

 

[theag]

A free blog account isn't considered a source. A source would be from a Google rep or a page from a Google domain.

Thats Google's official blog.

 

[ShadowX]

The more simple the better.

On forums where you have "Todays posts, new posts" etc. Have less links there, to do this for some of them you can make it drop down.

Few things from the user postbit can be moved into personal profile page instead. Eg. Location. Smaller the better, so users scroll less and content takes priority.

As you can see @theag 's post above. 4 words yet takes up so much space. On my chromebook that's the entire screen.

 

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[Andy Black]

As you can see @theag 's post above. 4 words yet takes up so much space. On my chromebook that's the entire screen.

Indeed, @theag doesn't need many words to take over.

 

[Goobii]

Awesome suggestions already!

I'd like to see the newbies go through a few mandatory threads (Gold Posts *Maybe the Golden Nuggets one too) before they are allowed to post any material.
There are many newbies that haven't even read the book so they don't & won't understand the concepts of being a Fastlaner.
They won't know about the Commandments (CENTS).
Perhaps a small quiz after they've read the threads to verify & they can then continue to post.

 

[Tiger TT]

A free blog account isn't considered a source. A source would be from a Google rep or a page from a Google domain. I did a cursory search and saw all third party claims, many from folks selling SSL services.

Here's the guideline from Google's official page (click "Help
Visitors Use Your Pages" for the new https guideline, it's
the 6th guideline):

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769?hl=en&ref_topic=6002025

And here is the proposal of the Chrome Security Team:

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/marking-http-as-non-secure

Here is what Chris Palmer and Parisa Tabriz (Google's security engineering manager) say
about the https issue according to this article:

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/g...ll-websites-that-are-unencrypted-chrome-https

Google updated its webmaster guidelines and added
a guideline about HTTPS:

https://yoast.com/google-webmaster-guidelines-update/

This is not urgent, but I think we'll eventually have to
move to https in a few years.

 

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[TonyStark]

Maybe add a special "Relocation- or Moving To" tab in the forum. I think a lot of people on here want to relocate to pursue their Fastlane dreams, and it would be nice to have a special section in the forum dedicated solely to that.

 

[million$$$smile]

How about "Platinum Threads"?

I think there are a few threads that really warrant something greater than just Gold to distinguish them from the others. Perhaps one or two in each category/genre.

There is some real Gold here and then there are a few that should be Platinum...

 

[Gsuz]

Is there a way to hide threads? I've been noticing quite a few threads polluting the newsfeed. Would be great to reduce the noise

 

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[AllenCrawley]

Is there a way to hide threads? I've been noticing quite a few threads polluting the newsfeed. Would be great to reduce the noise

Use [HASHTAG]#landfill[/HASHTAG] within a thread if you think that thread belongs there. We'll review it and if we agree we'll place it there. All threads moved to landfill are not viewable in the newsfeed/new posts.

 

[TedM]

Prior apologies if this has already been mentioned, but - I always wanted a more private forum than just "INSIDERS". I don't know how this would be done, or what the criteria would be.

 

[TonyStark]

Use rep$ to enter to win fastlane summit tickets, books, etc.

 

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[tigerscent]

If you were a moderator, or if you owned the forum...

What would you do differently to make this forum better?

Anything goes. Great answers/suggestions/ideas will get you rep$$.

Suggesting MJ fire me might get your IP address banned.

Go.

As a relative newcomer, I’m troubled by the sense of “them” and “us” – INSIDERS vs outsiders; those who have achieved “success” (whatever that means) vs those just starting out….and I say this as an INSIDERS, BTW!

OK, I get the frustration of drive-bys and action-fakers, but the idea that newcomers have nothing to contribute seems dangerous. An alternative view is that newbies and fast-laners are just at different places on the same road. After all, isn’t that why people join this forum in the first place?

The mission of The Fastlane Forum is to encourage entrepreneurs to become valued contributors to society, successful, financially independent, and self-sufficient through leveraged and disciplined entrepreneurship, or Fastlane Entrepreneurship.

Anyone engaging in internet forums has to apply their own critical thinking and bull-shit meter. People must decide for themselves what is of value or not – AND just because someone has a high rep doesn’t make them always right; the perils of group-think! I think there are already enough tools to self-manage without complicating things further – rep bank, likes, following, ignoring etc.

So, back to the objective of encouraging entrepreneurs, self-sufficiency and leverage through others. How can we do more of this?

· Create a simple action-based work pack for newbies. Why? To bridge that gap from “I’ve seen the light, I’m super keen” to “OK how do I action this?” (Not “tell me how to start a business, just give me all the answers”, but some key questions and actions, pointers to useful resources etc. that they can work through at their own pace. Perhaps those who’ve “kicked newbies’ backsides” could help articulate what this might look like).

· Voluntary buddy system. People can either request or volunteer as a buddy…pairing newbies with a more experienced member (with a mutual area of interest – see also below).

· Add searchable experience tags to profile (skills/industry/sector). Helps make the relationship more reciprocal between newbies and older members - people can see what value you have to offer beyond rep $$$.

 

[Vigilante]

· Add searchable experience tags to profile (skills/industry/sector). Helps make the relationship more reciprocal between newbies and older members - people can see what value you have to offer beyond rep $$$.

@MJ DeMarco love this.

 

[Daniel A]

Have the option of using Gravatar for our forum avatars. Imgur might be good for the same purpose too.

 

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[Longinus]

International clocks somewhere?

So you can see which part of the world is probably sleeping right now or working or reading the forum?

 

[Newpollz]

I know what I wouldn't do and that is starting getting all fancy over the "polls option" . It is perfectly fine as it is.



On a serious note, I'm starting to understand the importance of land filling threads but I would give at least some time for EVERYONE to decide if it's landfill material because it's not fair that the early birds get to push that censor button hard before everyone else gets a chance to read it.