Methods part 2

15th, Sunday, December 2013

Forums are a medium of meeting where ideas can be agreed upon and discussed throughout a means of communication. Forums are great places to discuss issues in current news or in another sense of discussion. There are many different names for a "forum". 

In the past they have been referred to being called names such as message boards, bulletin boards, some even call them threaded discussion boards. The simplistic definition of a forum per Se is a place where people from all over the world if granted permission can have the ability to start something called a thread which is a way of communicating whether you would like to discuss topics, or ask a question and to have it answered and be able to obtain a response or a reply and vice versa in which you can reply to someone else's discussion or query. The point of posting to a forum is for everyone to see, so in it being publicly visible makes it possible to build up a discussion without users having to be online all together at the same time this is rare anyway as the time zones can be anything from 1 - 10 hours apart. The basic structure as is follows. 

As we can see in the diagram from left to right is the order of hierarchy for a forums task force. Usually it would go from average user, then to the Mods or Moderator these guys can control the what topics and messages are allowed and are fine to be posted to the website these are considered to be senior moderators, then just below them you have your junior moderators who control what should be in which category. There is no particular difference in ranking for both the senior and junior moderators this is just to differentiate between who has what job. Above all of that you have your forum owner who is top dog CEO if you like and controls all he or she is pretty much god on the website he has the ability to ban anyone whether that be user member or mod. 

The registration of a forum is fairly simple much like joining a online service like Google which you most likely do if you use the of a daily occurrence, the service is fairly straight by just choosing a username and password like below in the example.

 

Above I Have explained how easy it can be to set up an account for the access of a forum account.