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Re:New Iron Mountains Website INFO - 2005/02/17 08:18
Forum....
might as well start with the big one... its a forum. specifically, its a "simpleboard" forum. its very similar to the popular phpBB forum (that the E-Samurai uses.) however, phpbb doesn't integrate as smoothly with Mambo, and there have recently been some security issues with it, including a worm that targets it specifically. so the descision was made to go with simple board. generally speaking its very similar. it doesn't have qutie all the spiffyness though, it is "simple" after all. but, it should be fine. plus, it has a Ninja smiley. 
things to know:
you must have an account to post. and it should go without saying you should be logged in first. however, anyone can read the forum. there are, at this moment, no hidden forums.
you can have an avatar (that spiffy little graphic next to my posts). it needs to be less than or equal to 70px x 70px and 40k in size. they are stored on the server, so thats kinda spiffy. the MUST be appropriate. you if have to ask, then its not appropriate, and once noticed, it will be removed.
there is a karma thingy... i guess its for people to give you an idea of what they think of your posts... i can't turn it off without turning off the post tracking and a couple of other things i like... so its here to stay. try not to abuse it too much.
right now board code (the ability to bold, italics, ul, quote, insert images, make links) is turned on, and html is turned off. html tends to confuse a few people and so didn't activate it. if folks really want it, its easy enough to turn on....
eventually, each forum will have moderators applied to them. we'll be sleecting them largely based upon who seems to be the most common posters in each one, but also bear in mind that its a responsibility, we won't make folks moderators that we don't think have a clue or think they would abuse thier powers. we may also ask within each forum for input on this descision.
ummm.. .thats bout it... to be honest, simpleboard is gonna be new to a lot of us. play with it a while and we'll see what we discover.
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