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What inspried you to get a free forum?What inspried you to get a free forum? I was curious oneday, and I was thinking aabouthow there are "free" websies, maybe there were free forums too. So I typed in free forum on Google, and the MFF ad came up, and I looked into it and decided that it wouldn't be hard to start a free forum, and so I did.
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| Symon |
Re: What inspried you to get a free forum?
Whilst on my usual thursday ban from mosthaunted forum (cnt say anything on there) i got a pm on another site to join the theghosthousegsng then i just followed the link and made a site for my girlfriend so she could chat to her friends. |
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| Billgar |
Well, there used to be this great forum that has srpassed any forum that I have ever seen. It was not done through a hosting sevice like this one, but the person did their own skinning and everything. It was called stupidquestions.org
Now you may google this or whatever, but you will never find he forum of which I speak, for the owner sold the url, and from there, the one who purchased it, proceeded to turn it into a rather low grade joke site. Anyways, with much anguish, I left the concept of forums in the past, for if I couldn't have stupid questions, then I didn't want anything. However, about a year later, A friend of mine told me about a forum run by some kid that he knew. Ecited over thr thought of being able to be part of another forum that was still small enough for me to stand a reasonable chance at survival, I was thrilled. However, within a few hours of posting, I was banned for supposedly upsetting the tempermental admin with too much posting. From there, I was determined to find a forum that I could call home, and whilst searching for a free forum, I stumbled accross myfrrforum.org, and had a revelation. If I could not join a forum that was satisfying to me, the I would make one. The construction began, and my forum started out small with only 1 dedicated member, however, we slowly grew in size, and after much trial and tribulation, have finally rose to be rank 13 amoung all of the my freeforums. |
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| BenMcDermott |
I was just curios and wanted to see how they work and see what the ACP looked like... now i know alot about phpbb and the mysql databases | ||||
| admin (no pm's please) |
It is great fun to build forums, I have been a top bod on a few successful ones in the past, and helping others to do the same it also very satisfying 
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| Tibbittz |
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| Tibbittz |
I've had so much fun on the forums I've been frequenting for the past 6 months (I'm newish to the forum world, just got a computer this year... ), but I wanted to create one where I could have a loose atmosphere, and just hang out out with friends from other boards wihtout having to worry about sometimes pecular moderation.
...and to talk about myself as much as possible, being the raving egomaniac that I am... 
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| Sitaram |
In Proverbs 15:17 we read:
I was very active on a large literature board for 8 months, but I felt there was too much censorship, in the sense that any mention of politics, or something which might be vaguely construed or misconstrued as politics, was forbidden. To give you one striking example, I had posted a little essay entitled "Our greatest sin", which really had little to do with religion, and was rather new-age in its tone:
A Muslim member began to post page after page of arguments to support the notion that the only real sin is to worship anything other than God. Well, at a crucial point in these pages of arguments, I made what I felt was a devastating blow to his position by citing Osama bin Laden as in an example. Well, my opponent cried foul play, claiming that I had brought politics into the discussion, and politics is forbidden at the forum. I surrendered to public pressure, but, I pointed out that Osama bin Laden is the leader of no nation, nor is he an elected representative, so it is curious how he can be perceived as a political topic, anymore than the unibomber might be perceived as poliltical. There were many other examples of what I perceived as repression and censorship, but the above is the most striking. You may see the complete discussion here: http://literarydiscussions.myfreeforum.org/ftopic844.php And, here is a dialogue which illustrates the oppression and censorship and bullying which I experienced from a moderator, who chose to participate in discussions as a member, but would then pull rank and flex their moderator powers, whenever they felt that someone might be getting the better of them in an argument: "If Boo is God - Possible Christian Imagery in To Kill a Mockingbird" http://literarydiscussions.myfreeforum.org/ftopic213.php I found a second, smaller, literature forum, with an older population, and began to post there. That forum forbid not only politics as a topic but also religion. Such prohibitions, in a literary forum, make it difficult to discuss a book like George Orwell's 1984 (which easily becomes political discussions), or James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" or Steinbeck's "East of Eden" (which easily become religious discussions.) One day, after a particularly vicious attack upon me which I considered unwarranted and unfair, I search in google.com under forums to see if I could have my own. The first advertised site which caught my eye was myfreeforum.org. I chose the name literarydiscussions off the top of my head, and within 10 minutes, had my own message board. Getting back to my quotation from the Book of Proverbs, I would rather have freedom of speech and expression, and have only 5 people to chat with, than have 10000 people read my posts, but constantly feel like I am walking on eggshells with each sentence that I write. |
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| admin (no pm's please) |
I think moderating by outlawing topics tends to be a bit of a cop out and leads to very arbitary decisions being made 
I much prefer a "free for all" with the only bars being bigotry and abuse of other members. This puts more responsibily on the mods, but is much better for the members. Of course all boards vary, and there may be good exceptions to this general rule. |
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| Symon |
Id agree with that but the only downside is no one seems to want to join a free for all forum.
Its much harder to get people over i have a free for all whereas a site to do with say dolls will attract many. |
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| admin (no pm's please) |
I think you are on the wrong subject! In any forum peopel will sometimes have off topic discussions. This is not about what sort of board you run to attract people, but what way you mod it when controversial discussions take place. |
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| xanthakita |
Need and familiarityI used to have my own domain. Job situations and finacial garbage foced me to give that up... when I had the domain (I hope to have it again some day) I had phpbb on my site with several different forums installed. I admined all of them, but also told anyone that if they wanted a forum I would setit up much as myfreeforum.org is doing. (I didn't have a clear cut means of ads and didn't make any money (wish I had)Anyhow. recently I started playing City of Heros and a good friend of mine asked me if I would help setup forums for the group she is in in City of Villains... hence HouseOfPain.myfreeforum.org was born jsut yesterday. I choose this site and these forums because I am familiar with phpbb and knew that there is a great amount of flexability. (less when you don't own the basic install but *shrug* that's life!) So I setup the forums for House of Pain and I'm considering setting up another to restore a couple of the forums I lost on my old domain. Anyhow. I enjoy reading these support forums and exploring the possibilities of what is available. |
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| Symon |
Yep i am that will teach me for speeding reading and missing some
On that note i think a forum that is over modded is a very bad idea one of the reason ghosthouse was set up was because of over modding on the main mosthaunted forum, this lead to threads not making sense and a lot of unhappy customers. |
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| sgts |
Sitaram,
in the military we have a communal area that we all sit in to chat and discuss things, play games and watch videos. In that area there are banned topics Sex Religion Politics IF anything gets out of hand these rules are called into play and things quickly calm down. ObL (Osama bin Laden) is not a political figure, neither is he a religious figure, he uses religion to carry out his personal agenda; whatever that may be! Hitler tried the religion thing with the Teutonic Knights and the knights of the Nazi party... he ruled by fear yet there are still people who think he was a religious figure. Look at cult leaders who create their 'own' religion... Literature (books and stories), religion, history and politics are all intertwined. In fact, I'd be interested to know a book that someone can't turn to religion or politics! |
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| Thunder |
Wow Sitaram. I visited your board.... How do you get the time to build so much like you have it there? I have a forum with a similar idea here, but I am about to do away with it as in building a mandala and then destroying it. I think it is interesting that people join forums either to never post a single post or post once maybe twice and then flee. What's up with that? The inspiration comes from wanting to share of what I know and have experienced with the world, for me anyway. I figure that maybe someone, somewhere might benefit someday, somehow by whatever has been posted and left behind. I really am not caring to let that one I linked above, up and running, unless I see some activity, why post things that have already been posted before if noone is gonna comment on them? Anyway, my two cents... |
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| St0rm[TitE] |
Re: What inspried you to get a free forum?
because its free. |
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| Symon |
Re: What inspried you to get a free forum?
Free doesnt allways mean its good a free forum with no help and support and a help forum that no one listens to you or no help at all isnt a good one. were as this is free and the level of support is way beyond what you would expect from Admin and members |
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| Thunder |
I am thankful I found your place here where I finally had an idea that kicked in and took action on it till completion. I actually googled "create your forum" and gladly landed here...
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| Tibbittz |
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| Thunder |
After much thought, I decided to leave the Board up... When I took th ematters to th eforum where I had a few people join me from there, th emajority advocated for me to leave it up...I then decided to do so, as there is a lot of good perhaps not as much original information there for the public at large.
I have been particularly inspired by you Sitaram to do and say some of the things I have done and said since we last chatted. I have a better undersatanding of reality and living just from having met you. Perhaps I ill never write a book, perhaps my call is still to do and say the things I do and say, just the way I have been doing them and saying them... But, one thing is certain, that my percepti0ons and thoughts about reality and living have expanded since I met you and other souls like yours in this wonderful medium of ours called the internet.. Thanks... |
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