Just Launched - Enjoy Forum 1.0
by Jeff Moger
on Monday, August 18 2008
Our new Forum is ready and though it is completely empty at the moment, I have no doubt your intelligent, insightful comments, questions and answers will be filling it up in no time at all. This Forum has been a long time in development and delayed more than once while we pondered the prevailing winds of paranoia that have put a virtual freeze on most things fun these days. However, we're pretty confident in releasing this now. Most if not all of the bigger, scarier bugs have been stomped on. I expect this next week will reveal a few more lurking in the corners so please give us a shout if you get bitten, or post a comment below if you have any comments, suggestions, or kind things to say.
Some may wonder why we went to the bother of developing our own system, instead of just using a feature heavy, off-the-shelf package like everyone else. The simple answer is we wanted to do for message forums what we have already done with classifieds - keep it simple, keep it clean, and keep it easy enough for my mother to use.
I'm afraid to say, certain topics will be off limits. For instance, the words [redacted] and [redacted] will not be tolerated, and any attempt to pontificate on [redacted] will result in your immediate expulsion from the community and/or forced re-education. We wil also have zero tolerance for commercial spam, flame wars, and flamboyant displays of stupidity /nationalism.
We do hope it will in time grow to be a civil arena for information exchange, helpful advice from old hands to new arrivals, and a friendly place for special interest groups to congregate, chat, and make new friends. We will be wanting moderators soon to take charge of certain sections, so we encourage you to participate now. If your contribution is genuinely helpful to the community perhaps we'll tap you to take on totalitarian control of your section - complete with full authority to edit, delete and harass members at will.