Forum
The forum is the whole installation, and usually contains multiple boards.
You should always enter the forum through a link that ends in forum.pl (not
forum_show.pl) to let the forum know when you start a new session. Otherwise
the forum won't know when to mark posts as new or old.
User
A user is anyone who registers an account in the forum. Registration is
usually not required for reading, but only registered users will see
statistics about new/read posts. Users can be granted membership status to
selected boards, enabling them to see private boards and post in read-only
boards.
Board
A board contains topics, which in turn contain the posts. Boards can be set
to be visible to registered users or to administrators, moderators and board
members only. Boards can be anonymous, meaning the user's ID won't be stored
with the post (this doesn't guarantee full anonymity from administrators,
though), and can optionally allow posts by unregistered guests. Announcement
boards can be read-only, so that they only allow posts by administrators,
moderators and members, or reply-only, which means that only administrators,
moderators and members can start new topics, but everybody can reply. Another
option for boards is moderation. If this option is activated, new posts will
be invisible to normal users until an administrator or moderator approves
them. Users can subscribe to a board, which means they will get all new posts
in that board in one daily email.
Topic
A topic, otherwise known as thread, contains all the posts on a specific
subtopic, that should be named in the topic's subject. Boards have expiration
values that determine after how many days their topics will expire or get
locked after their last post has been made. Administrators and moderators can
also manually lock topics, so that no new messages can be added to them.
Post
A post is a single public message by a user. It can be either a base post,
which starts a new topic, or a reply to an existing topic. Posts can be edited
and deleted, which might be limited to a certain time frame. Posts can be
added to personal todo lists and can be reported to the administrators and
moderators in case of rule violations.
Private Message
In addition to the public posts, private messages may be enabled in a
forum. Registered users can send each other these messages without knowing the
email addresses of the recipients.
Administrator
An administrator can control and edit everything in the forum. A forum can
have multiple administrators.
Moderator
A moderator's powers are limited to the boards he is moderator in. A
moderator can edit, delete and approve posts by normal users, lock and delete
topics, add and remove board members and check the list of reported posts. A
board can have multiple moderators.
Polls
The creator of a topic can add a poll to this topic, if this feature is
enabled. Each poll can contain up to 20 options. Registered users can cast one
vote for one option per poll. Polls can't be edited, and can only be deleted
as long as there haven't been any votes.
Icons
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Yellow icons indicate new posts respectively topics or boards with new posts.
In this forum, 'new' means a post has been added since your last visit. Even
if you have just read it, it is still a new post, and will only be counted as
old on your next visit to the forum.
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Checkmarked icons indicate that the post respectively all posts in a topic or
board have been read. Posts are counted as read once their topic had been on
screen or if they're older than a set number of days. Since new/old and
unread/read are independent concepts in this forum, posts can be new and read
as well as old and unread at the same time.
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Icons with dotted outlines indicate topics/posts that are invisible to other
users, because they are waiting for approval by an administrator or moderator.
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The lock icon indicates the topic has been locked for some reason and no new
posts (except by administrators and moderators) are allowed.
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Markup Tags
For security reasons, mwForum only supports its own set of markup tags, no
HTML tags. Available markup tags:
| [b]text[/b] |
renders text bold |
| [i]text[/i] |
renders text italic |
| [tt]text[/tt] |
renders text nonproportional |
| [img]address[/img] |
embeds a remote image (if the feature is enabled) |
| [url]address[/url] |
links to the address |
| [url=address]text[/url] |
links to the address with the given text |
Smileys
The following emoticons are displayed as images (if the feature is enabled):
:-) ;-) :-( :-o
