Hello to everyone. I'm making a website. I want to do a forum with it just for something interactive to be on there. The only thing is that I cant do the moderating all the time, so I was thinking on implementing self moderation into the website. I was thinking on doing something like on craigslist or even closer if not alike, defsounds.com. I like that trash option. it doesn't delete the post, but hides it, that's what I want to do. If it's real spam, I can just come by and delete it later in the day. I'm thinking on using the forum software simple machines forum ( http://www.simplemachines.org/ ) As a base, then work on it to make it how I wanted. What do you guys think?
automated moderation is a pipedream.. it doesn't work.. all that happens is every new post is queued and you have to manually sift through every entry and allow or remove all posts.. do you fancy doing that? 99% of online forums are built on a linux/unix server, because windows servers cost $$$'s and are a trashers dream, they are so easy to tear to pieces. You want to build a site to compete with craigslist? check your legal responsibilities.. When you get it built give me the link so I can sell my porn dvd's and illegal pirated software disks by mail order eh? Just build some forums first and find out how to build run a site.. you want to host it yourself? check your ISP's terms and conditions, and be prepared for the hackers (russians usually) to have a great time tearing your templates and css apart with sql injection techniques. Lots to learn
THe first thing, i'd that I wanted to compile the forum from php. I have no intention of competing with craigslist. Even if I did it wouldn't be illegal. If I think about it, that's an automattic loss, I'm a dedicated craigslist user myself, ebay sucks. I was using craigslist as a comparison. I built a home server before, but I moved and was also too lazy to wire everything back up. I'm hooking everything back today, I had so far created a route to a closet that will be housing my rack for all the devices. My previous isp (mci) had an open port policy which allowed me to host through port 80, so does my new one. My server from out of 8 months went down twice. Once from me disconnecting it to add in a peice to the hub and the second from me moving some of the devices to an individual circuit breaker. My question might sound childish, but I wanted to ask if it's a pipe dream why does craigslist have a flag system and defsounds has a trash system? I'm also doing both the home and having a company do the web hosting for me. I spoke to one of the developers and according to him all it is was just doing the process of banning for spammers or offenders. P.S. I did have spam bot attempts from my last server and even intrusion attemps. From what I rembered, my outer firewall loged it, and it never went through. Either way I just wanted to see if there was already a self made forum or extension out there.
