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Forum - The forum is the whole installation, and usually contains
multiple boards. You should always enter the forum through the link
http://www.lorissoft.com/z_forum/forum.cgi
(not forum_show.cgi) to let the forum know when you start a new session.
Otherwise the forum won't know when to mark posts as new or old.
Board - A board contains topics, which in turn contain the posts.
Boards can be set to be visible to registered users or to admins and board
members only. Boards can be anonymous, meaning the user's ID won't be stored
with the post (this doesn't guarantee full anonymity from admins, though), and
can optionally allow posts by unregistered visitors. Announcement boards can
be read-only, so that they only allow posts by admins and members, or reply-
only, which means that only admins and members can start new topics, but
everybody can reply. Another option for boards is approval moderation. If this
option is activated, new posts will be invisible to normal users until an
admin approves them. Score Moderation is explained in more detail below. Users
can subscribe to a board, which means they will get all new posts in that
board in one daily email.
Topic - A topic, otherwise known as thread, contains all the posts
on a specific subtopic, that should be named in the topic's subject. Boards
have expiration values that determine after how many days their topics will
expire or get locked after their last post has been made. An important topic
can be set to 'protected', so that it never expires. Admins can also manually
lock topics, so that no new messages can be added to them.
Post - A post is a single public message by a user. It can be either a
base post, which starts a new topic, or a reply to an existing topic. Posts can
be edited and deleted.
User - A user is anyone who registers an account in the forum.
Registration is not required for reading, but only registered users will see
statistics about new/read posts. Users can be granted membership status to
selected boards, enabling them to see private boards and post in read-only
boards.
Forum Administrator - A forum admin can control and edit everything in
the forum. A forum can have multiple forum admins.
Board Administrator - A board admin is what most other forum
applications call the board moderator. A board admin's powers are limited to
the boards he is admin of. A board admin can edit, delete and approve posts by
normal users, mark topics as protected or locked, delete topics and add and
remove board members. A board can have multiple board admins.
Score Moderation - If the score moderation system is active for a
board, every post in that board has a score. Users with votes can moderate a
post up or down, adding or subtracting a point to/of the post's score. All
users can set a score threshold in their options. If a post's score is lower
than that threshold, the post will be invisible to the user (except for a
small hidden-post indicator). Using the 'Reveal' button on the hidden-post
indicator, users can temporarily reveal all hidden posts on that page. Forum
admins can set the default number of daily votes new users get, change this
value for individual users, and set the starting score individual user's posts
get.
Icons
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Yellow icons indicate new posts respectively topics or boards with new posts.
In this forum, 'new' means a post has been added since your last visit. Even
if you have just read it, it is still a new post, and will only be counted as
old on your next visit to the forum.
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Checkmarked icons indicate that the post respectively all posts in a topic or
board have been read. Posts are counted as read once their topic has been on
screen. Since new/old and unread/read are independent concepts in this forum,
posts can be new and read as well as old and unread at the same time.
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Icons with dotted outlines indicate topics/posts that are invisible to other
users, because they are waiting for approval by an admin.
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The lock icon indicates the topic has been locked for some reason and no new
posts (except by admins) are allowed.
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Markup Tags - For security reasons, mwForum only supports its own
set of markup tags, no HTML tags. Markup can be enabled/disabled per board.
http:// and ftp://-URLs are automatically displayed as links.
Available markup tags:
| [b]text[/b] | renders text bold |
| [i]text[/i] | renders text italic |
| [tt]text[/tt] | renders text nonproportional |
Smileys - The following emoticons are displayed as images:
:-) ;-) :-( :-o
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