What Is An Internet Forum | Part 3
Forum Language
In a Forum, the following are frequently used English expressions and foreign words:
- Ban (suspension of a user, such as continuing violations of rules, which may be temporary or permanent).
- Banish (punish a user with the ban).
- Cross-posting (insert the same message in multiple sections of that forum).
- Flame (Talk overheated which can degenerate into insults and personal insults).
- Flood (message or messages absolutely useless as a place of sun faces, or threads like “we count up to 1000″).
- Lurker or Leecher (who is only reading the contents).
- Mod (enforcing the rules of the community).
- Netiquette (rules of behavior more or less explicit).
- Newbie (beginner, novice user).
- Nickname (user name, pseudonym, alias).
- Off-topic (Section predisposed to the insertion of messages relevant to the topics covered in the forum or message is not relevant to the topic in a particular discussion), often abbreviated “OT”.
- PM (private message, stands for Private Message).
- Post (message).
- E (send messages).
- Post padding (fill page after page of useless messages.)
- Reply (answer).
- Spam (unsolicited advertising messages or even non-commercial, as links to personal sites without permission of the directors).
- Split (split a topic into two or more topic).
- Thread (discussion), sometimes abbreviated to “3D”.
- Topic (discussion thread synonymous; rarely subject.)
- Troll (provocateurs are individuals who argue just for arguing).
- Warn (warning required by those with power in the forum, which would report violations of the regulation, generally has its own gauge for each user placed under the avatar).
Forum Software
Packages for the management of forums are widely available on the Internet, some free and others for a fee. Can be written in a variety of programming languages, like PHP, ASP, Perl and Java and their contents are usually stored in text files or DBMS.
Most free software is used within phpBB, and Simple Machines Forum Snitz Forums 2000, while among those in charge are vBulletin and Invision Power Board (which up-obsolete version 1.3 was available for free).
Finally, for those who did not have adequate expertise or resources needed for the installation of a software like this on a server, there are also some forums on outsourcing or the possibility of using P2P software such as Osiris appropriate to allow the creation of forums decentralized and distributed among the various nodes.
There are also free hosting services as well as a forum, think Forumfree and FreeForumZone, just to name a few.
Types of Forums:
ExBB Forum: written in PHP which stores data in text file (flat file)
Invision Power Board: Forum (fee) of Invision Power Service
Lussumo Vanilla: The sweetest forum on the web.
MyBulletinBoard: powerful free forum written in PHP
Osiris Forum: based on P2P technology which guarantees anonymity and resistance to failure.
phpBB Forum: written in PHP, allows you to store data in various types of databases.
PunBB Forum: written in PHP.
Simple Machines Forum: Free forum based on PHP and MySQL.
UseBB Forum: lightweight, simple and usable, licensed under GPL uses PHP 4 and MySQL.
vBulletin: Powerful and prestigious forum (fee) written in PHP, which stores data in MySQL database.
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