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oblivion

22nd December 2011, 04:55 AM

It's early days and we don't actually need to worry about this yet, but it's something to think about and maybe practice on.

How do we want the forums to be structured?

A lot of sites divide things into something like

Community

Culture

Srs Bsnz

Site Management Crap



And that kinda works. Do we want to try that? Try something else? How do your favorite sites organize the forums?

Adenosine

22nd December 2011, 05:23 AM

FF has theirs as Community, Srs business (aka Science, computers, philosophy, literature, sort of tertiary level stuff), common talk topics (what did you do on your weekend, what are you eating, what do you think of that bastard {insert politician's name here}, who and how are you fucking and finally, the toilet, aka The Cloaca) and then forum admin. That works too.

Truth be told I only pay attention to sub-fora when I want to start a thread, the rest of the time I use New Posts. I couldn't tell you offhand how TR is laid out, or Ratz.

nostrum

22nd December 2011, 05:24 AM

Hmmm this is going to be tricky with no modding to move threads, eh.

charlou

22nd December 2011, 05:40 AM

that's technical stuff, nostrum ... admins are the techies

nostrum

22nd December 2011, 06:00 AM

Hehehe ok I forgot! If threads will be moved we need to spell that out don't we? Ie it's moderation of a kind?

oblivion

22nd December 2011, 06:08 AM

I would like to set up a forum where I can document what mods we install, what mods we are researching, what template elements we change, etc.

IMO that type of info should not be visible to guests. I think it's arguable that the info shouldn't be visible to members, either, but I don't think keeping it out of sight is worth stressing over our vision and principles.

Any objection to me setting up a forum for this documentation that will not be visible to guests?

Hermit

22nd December 2011, 09:29 AM

I would like to set up a forum where I can document what mods we install, what mods we are researching, what template elements we change, etc.

IMO that type of info should not be visible to guests. I think it's arguable that the info shouldn't be visible to members, either, but I don't think keeping it out of sight is worth stressing over our vision and principles.

Any objection to me setting up a forum for this documentation that will not be visible to guests?There definitely needs to be a log of such activities, if for no other reason than it being really helpful when it comes to updating the underlying vBulletin software. I am not against such a log being invisible to forum members, but I don't know why it ought to be secret either. Is an open log a security threat?

Edit: Just noticed you said 'guests', not 'members'. No problem with that. We'll probably get to a point where it is decided that other parts of the forum will be zoned 'members only', but that is a bridge we'll get to in the future.

Adenosine

22nd December 2011, 12:25 PM

No objection.

oblivion

22nd December 2011, 06:19 PM

I've set the forum up and set the permissions such that guests and accounts that haven't fully registered can't see the forum. Right now, any member can post in the forum.