Re: [GSAS-Member] A forum

[Berg <bergatron@gmail.com>]

wowzers....

Berg

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:58 PM, macker <macker@gmail.com> wrote:

> As a security professional and Vice President of the Puget Sound ISSA,
>  are
> you also going to install the almost daily patches for all these PHP
> bulletin boards to help prevent abuse of the computing resources?
>
> I say screw it, its too much trouble. I don't mind email, and gmail
> threads
> them anyways.
>
> - macker
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Laurel Larsen <laurelthequeen@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I'd be willing to help out moderating if it's needed.  I work as a
> > receptionist in the afternoons and most of my time is spent writing
> > papers for school and surfing the internet waiting for calls.
> >
> > -Laurel
> > On Mar 6, 2008, at 3:29 PM, Berg wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> > >>>
> > >>> --
> > >>> Erik Olson
> > >>> erik at thekrib dot com
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