Hain

1. The journals do not have to be part of the main forum portal. They can still be their own section hidden away in the basement and the only way to visit them is by clicking the link at the top of the portal "Journal Index."
2. How do we:
   1. report spam journal comments now?
   2. report spam comments in the forums now?
   Is there such a solution for (a)? We have an active solution for (b).

No no no no no no. Each user would get a sub-forum dedicated to them. Only the owner could create new threads in the sub forum. Each entry would be a new thread. The first post would [almost certainly] be their entry and all comments are seen. Each entry is then clearly updated...


The entry order here would not have to be specific to the entry creation, and like our regular forums- ordered in terms of recent posts or thoughts to the entry. We can have a selector to choose the ordering just like in the regular forums.

Technical hurdles with my model as it stands:

1. Empowering users with private entries, including selecting which buddies can look at specific entries. This is the big one that even I don't like...
2. Updating the sub forums immediately under the Journal Index in order of recent thread (journal entry) creation or in order of latest comments to the thread (entry). One can easily notice that the sub forums of TFP's main portal are static. However, the entries need not be static like the journal entries currently are, as we could arrange them however one wanted by selecting the preferred sort scheme.

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