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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
[1] From the moderator standpoint, you'd be opening the journals to spam. [2] And that's very problematic given how personal many journals are.
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[1] Why would it be "opening the journals to spam" more so than they all ready are? Only members are capable of seeing the journals, and even then either the entry must not be private or you be one of the members friends to view the journal.
[2] No argument from me that the journals are more personal than the main threads. However, I am not imaginative enough to fathom the problem of point [1]. Granted I:
- have not seen and dealt with the things you have seen/dealt with and
- might be less of a prick than I imagine since I can't see how people could abuse the journals if it were set up in my fashion.
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
something happend back during an upgrade and we lost alot of formatting and such, there was a period when there was no journals available. the journal community was on hold for a bit. there was an attempt at using the forum to create threads and people commenting via the threaded view. It was very confusing to many and just not easy at all.
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I didn't experience this... So I don't know the extent of what went wrong nor have any insight to how people were going about this.
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Blocking users from threads is problematic, for forums it's done at usergroup level, doing it at member level is problematic since you'd have to be a administrator to do so. Even then it's not as simple as adding a name but actually going into the forum permissions and giving explicit rights to that member.
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I imagined that this would be an issue. I could press further with an alternative but it would be moot at this point unless someone else things this is a good idea... as good of an idea as I see it anyways.
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I suggest taking an opportunity to look at phpbb or vbulletin. Both have demos you can see the backend and tinker with. It
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[/quote]I might however... these things really do not make sense to me until I have spent a good hour a day for 4 weeks plugging away at it (i.e. as if I were sitting in a classroom).
Honest to the gods, the way I see this thing working, I can't imagine what would be wrong or difficult with it (aside from problems noted). When I get an hour (or three...) to myself next week I can crank out an HTML mock-up of what I see in my head.