Welcome Aboard!

[eigen]

Ok, so I've got the shell of the forum set up.

In our trial period, I'm approving members manually, and pushing people to moderator status who expressed an interest.

If you notice things you are unable to do that you need to, please let me know and I'll adjust permissions. As things are, permissions are... long, so I went through and set some basics that need to be refined.

The main settings I changed from the default SMF install:

1) No attachments.
2) Members can't delete profiles or posts- only moderators.
2b) I can't seem to figure out how to set a time window for editing.
3) I set up post-count based user groups to try to ameliorate spam. We can adjust anything about these as we develop the board.
4) Guests can't search or view profiles.

Semi-long term, I can actually see it being worthwhile to keep membership needing a moderator approval. I don't think we have so many users that it will be prohibitive, and I think it will go a long way to cutting down on spam.

I'm certainly willing to do a once-a-day approval of everyone legitimate in the queue.

[Hibush]

Thanks for setting this up. Everything looks pretty spiffy!
I look forward to the discussion on the new boards.

[Parasaurolophus]

w00t! Nice work!

I'll putz around and see what I can see. It sure looks empty without all the threads. Poorest little forum.

I'm happy with manual approval of user accounts for the time being. I check this email account several times a day. Thumbs up on the current settings! One question with respect to 2(b): can you tell what its default setting seems to be? (I'll check back on this post a few times to see when or if the button disappears.)

EDIT: Silly me. I forgot I have far-reaching editorial powers.

[fast_and_bulbous]

Cool beans. I am still fast, but slightly less bulbous than when I started on the old forum.

Long live thefora.org :)

[ergative]

Hurrah! I'm so thrilled that we got this going so fast.

[Wahoo Redux]

Indeed: W00T!!!  Thank you for all your hard work!

[eigen]

Nothing like some extra opportunities for productive procrastination during final exam grading.

[aside]

This is definitely an improvement over the older version of SMF, yet still feels like home.  Thanks so much to eigen for setting it up, and to all the others who have provided their insight and expertise toward building the new fora.

[Scout]

Testing testing

[spork]

Hello.

FYI, I am able to post apparently without manual approval. When I created my account, I received an email that said "Before you can login and start using the forum, your request will be reviewed and approved.  When this happens, you will receive another email from this address." I did not receive a second email.

[eigen]

My guess is you were approved and one of us forgot to send the email.

When moderators approve users, we have to manually select the "send email", and I've been forgetting that part at least part of the time.

I can tell you that you were approved, however, according to our logs.

[Puget]

Thanks to everyone who did the hard work of moving camp for us!
Everything is familiar but with nice upgrades-- my geographical moniker always looked so wrong lower cased.

[Hibush]

Thanks to everyone who did the hard work of moving camp for us!
Everything is familiar but with nice upgrades-- my geographical moniker always looked so wrong lower cased.

Yes, it looks more Sound now.

[Puget]

Thanks to everyone who did the hard work of moving camp for us!
Everything is familiar but with nice upgrades-- my geographical moniker always looked so wrong lower cased.

Yes, it looks more Sound now.

Hibush gets the Pun Award for today!

[mamselle]

Wonderfully both bad and deep.

M.