Why no phpbb board?

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pma 11 February 2005 17:27 · Member since January 2002

+ private messaging
+ you can DISABLE private messaging
+ better search
+ looks better too :-P
+ you can disable search
+ tweaking possibilities
+ you can disable emoticons
+ you can disable avatars
+ you can set moderators, global mods, admin
+ you can set user/mod/admin rights, limit them to "moving topics" for example, limit posting rights,set sections unmoderated, moderated... the possibilities are simply endless.
+ Open source/free
and so forth...

Is their really any good arguments against QZ having a more "modern" noticeboard? I recall the arguments being "silly emoticons" and so forth, but that feature as any other, can be easily disabled by an admin. I've never really heard a good negative argument about it.

Phpbb, vbulletin, Invision powerboard etc... They aren't widely used as solutions for noticeobards/forums because they are bad, now are they?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpbb/

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AC 15 February 2005 08:34 · Member since July 2001

Listen to the wise maaaaaaaaaaaaan!

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englishyob 15 February 2005 13:49 · Member since August 2004

We also could do with a few moderators aswell on here

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Scirocco1977 15 February 2005 13:59 · Member since August 2004

No no no... no moderators... THey always turn into little Hitlers... The board is fine that way!

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englishyob 15 February 2005 14:14 · Member since August 2004

i know there can but some thing on here are getting out of hand and we need people to start closing some threads, also I’ve seen on many other forums where duplicate threads get open the moderators just merge them together to make one. Cos some poeple on here get upset when duplicate threads are opened

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pma 16 February 2005 11:46 · Member since January 2002

Scirocco1977 wrote:
No no no... no moderators... THey always turn into little Hitlers... The board is fine that way!

Reading is the key to learning, or so I've heard.

I pointed out that ADMIN can set Moderator rights and limit them to just "move topics" so it's pretty hard to go on a powertrip when all you can do is move topics to their appropriate sections...

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AC 25 February 2005 08:04 · Member since July 2001

I think a phpbb board is a VERY interesting idea, pma... why don't you tell us more about it?

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The Mir@cle 25 February 2005 08:09 · Member since December 2003

AC wrote:
I think a phpbb board is a VERY interesting idea, pma... why don't you tell us more about it?

Yeah, and why don't you built one for us ;-)

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pma 25 February 2005 19:53 · Member since January 2002

AC wrote:
I think a phpbb board is a VERY interesting idea, pma... why don't you tell us more about it?

Geewiz, haven't I told enough :-P It's not obviously very interesting or gaining any support. As far as I'm concerned, sod it.

Anyone can have their own phpbb forum at www.forumer.com for example and see for themselves how the administration functions work etc.

The version at forumer doesn't allow any custom hacks though and has pretty much only basic features, which doesn't give the a good idea of the full potential of phpbb as a forum solution.

Anyway, like talking to a wall...

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AC 26 February 2005 06:26 · Member since July 2001

pma wrote:
As far as I'm concerned, sod it.

VAFFANCULO!

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pma 26 February 2005 13:04 · Member since January 2002

AC wrote:
pma wrote:
As far as I'm concerned, sod it.

VAFFANCULO!

Älä mölyä...

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Lisser 27 February 2005 21:32 · Member since January 2004

wrong thread....oops.

hi pete, hi ac

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Unknown 28 February 2005 00:56

PLEASE!!!! No mods!
That is one of the things that separates this board from QOL, we are a FREE people. Please don't revert to totalitarianism!!
Give me FREEDOM
or Give me DEATH!!

I want the right to post WHATEVER I want! I don't want to be CENSORED by a mod!

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pma 28 February 2005 03:17 · Member since January 2002

Ms. Farenheit wrote:
PLEASE!!!! No mods!
That is one of the things that separates this board from QOL, we are a FREE people. Please don't revert to totalitarianism!!
Give me FREEDOM
or Give me DEATH!!

I want the right to post WHATEVER I want! I don't want to be CENSORED by a mod!

And if you'd read this topic through with thought and comprehended each word we've written, you'd have realized that the suggested form of moderation only includes "moving topics".

Yet you produce this blatant unnecessary outcry, as if someone has suggested that an SS-stormtrooper unit is formed to patrol QZ.

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AC 28 February 2005 08:47 · Member since July 2001

Ms. Farenheit wrote:
PLEASE!!!! No mods!
That is one of the things that separates this board from QOL, we are a FREE people. Please don't revert to totalitarianism!!
Give me FREEDOM
or Give me DEATH!!

I want the right to post WHATEVER I want! I don't want to be CENSORED by a mod!

Pease read what pma said. He doesn't want moderators. He said something different, about a "new" notice board with more functions and possibilities.

And that is something interesting.

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