Re: [GSAS-Member] A forum

[Berg <bergatron@gmail.com>]

Well if we decide to go down the road of setting up a forum I have a lot of
experience setting up phpbb and Gallery so I can help out if needed.

Later,
Berg

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Bryan Nichols <b_monius_funk@yahoo.com>
wrote:

> I agree about the "feeling like I'm spamming" argument. A forum would
> eliminate that for me.
>
> I really don't think that moderating a forum would be difficult. It only
> takes a few individuals to make sure everything stays family friendly. With
> a group like this, I don't think we'll get into flame wars anyway. My wife
> moderates a forum and I'd be willing to moderate a GSAS forum along with
> some help if one ever materialized.
>
> Clifford Miller <clifford@clevergeek.com> wrote:
> When I first joined up it seemed like it would be fun to have an easy
> place to permantently share photos.  Two things I like about a forum
> (and/or gallery setup) are that:
>
> 1) Some members might post more often to a forum than a list so they don't
> feel like they're spamming everyone.
>
> 2) mailing lists (that lack attachment abilities) encourage text linking
> from free photo-sharing sites for sharing pictures or files.  In my
> experience, most of the things linked in list archives have long since
> gone missing as accounts expire or things get deleted or moved.  Even if
> you find what you're looking for in the archives, if it's not a part of
> the message text, it's probably gone.
>
> If anyone would be interested, it would be pretty trival (a couple of
> clicks) to add a forum or gallery setup to my existing web host, and since
> the account already has more storage and transfer than I'll ever use, it
> wouldn't cost the group anything.
>
> I couldn't volunteer myself to police a forum or gallery full-time or
> anything, but as has been said, there isn't really any existing moderation
> going on now, so there probably wouldn't be all that much needed?
>
> Just offering options...
>
> Cliff
>
>
> > On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Laurel Larsen wrote:
> >
> >> but I find forums to be a little more cohesive not only than the
> >> mailing list, but also the archive, it's easier to share photos
> >
> > That is true about the photos.  The same scheme that keeps this list
> > spam-free also is (for better or worse) what keeps us photo-free.
> >
> > However, it does make me think... we could open it up to allow small
> photo
> > attachments (jpeg only, say 200k total per e-mail?).  It means that
> those
> > e-mails would be larger when photos are attached.  Those subscribed to
> the
> > digest would not get the photos, but they would be available in the
> > archive.  If anyone has an opinion one way or another, e-mail me
> > privately... it would be easy to do this on a trial basis and turn it
> back
> > off if it got out of hand.
> >
> >
> >> registration could be filtered allowing only members to register(with
> >> their member number).
> >
> > This is a bit more tricky, because it requires synchronizing of the
> > database with the forum, or someone to moderate subscribe requests, etc.
> > Much like public radio, we don't actually keep non-members off this
> list,
> > theory being that it may encourage them to come to a meeting or an
> > auction, or even (gasp) join!
> >
> >
> >> I understand that most forums require moderation, but there is none on
> >> the mailing list and I have yet to see crazy arguments, rants or death
> >> threats.
> >
> > It's not so much the discussions getting out of hand as the
> opportunistic
> > spam bots and other completely unrelated junk that shows up.  It's
> really
> > nice that this list has essentially had no spam on it for going on nine
> > years now.  Over on the AGA forum, until we added a customized 'plant
> > quiz' to the registration (something I had to custom-code), we were
> > getting 2-5 messages a day posted for Cell phone accessories,
> prescription
> > drugs, and other inappropriate topics.  And they're all posted by
> robots,
> > so they never stop.
> >
> >> It's merely an idea that
> >> I thought I'd throw out there since many other regional clubs have
> >> forums.  :)
> >
> > Definitely -- don't stop with the ideas!
> >
> >    - Erik
> >
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> > erik at thekrib dot com
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