Hackensack, NJ Community Message Boards

The School Board election is April 19, 2005.  The voter registration for this election is March 21, 2005.

See the posts from last year's School Board Election here.     

When: Sunday, March 6, 2005
Where: The Rothman Center
Time: 6:00 p.m. (Doors open at 5 p.m.)
What: Northeast Conference Semifinals
Versus: Long Island University

Tickets: Available at the Rothman Center

Prices: $8 Adults
$5 Student w/ id
     Children under 12

School of Rock to show its stuff at a benefit

"Play with a Play" Workshop: March 12, 2005

For anyone who may be curious, here are some statistics for Hackensack Now:

Traffic is rapidly increasing. In February, more than 2700 unique users visited Hackensack Now.  For year 2005, more than 4600 unique visitors came to the site.  Considering there are only 42,000 people in Hackensack (about half of that within "computer using age"), I'm encouraged by this number.

The vast majority of users view the message boards.  The message boards were viewed more than 10,000 times in the month of February alone.  (This means that 2500 unique users are returning each month about 4 times).   Only a small percentage of those viewing the boards actually post messages.

Bandwidth for the month of February exceeded 1 gigabyte. 

For some reason, Wednesdays generate the most traffic.  On average, approximately 250 unique people visit the site on this day. 

About 30 other internet sites link to Hackensack Now.

Thanks again for your participation.  As always, if you have any suggestions about how I can make this site better serve the community, please let me know.

Karma is a built-in function within the Hackensack Now Forums that allows a person to award and be awarded points for good forum postings.

The karma points (or cookies as some people call them) are listed on the left side of every member post, under their Member ID, Title and Stars. The format looks like this:

Karma: 1
Karma: -1

Any registered member can receive karma at any point after they've made their first post.  Click here to register.

If you press the "clap" botton  on a person's post, their Karma count will increase by one. Some people call this giving a person a karma cookie.  You may also debit Karma by pressing "boo". 

There is a limit on granting karma. You may only award a person a single applaud within a one hour period.

The spirit of Karma is to show appreciation for a post that a person has made. If you feel that a certain post is above average or especially helpful, then hit that applaud link under the member's id for that post and award them a cookie.

I'll typically deduct karma for disparaging remarks against other people.  There are more artful ways to criticize than to be hurtful. Insults are easy. Naturally, all personal attacks will be deleted as per our policy. 

Enjoy.

Al