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Discussion Forum
A Discussion Forum works as a central place for members of your online community or your customers to interact with each other, engage in discussions, share their experiences, discuss the information presented on your web site, and provide you with valuable feedback. Such communities offer a special bond for people with the same interests and views, and build a dedicated and long lasting following. Discussion forums have also been proven to be excellent tools for sales and customer support.
Discussion Forum Front-end Experience
User services offered by In-Bulletin, allow users to maintain their own profiles, avatars, signatures and favorites. Chronological and hierarchical topic views allow for easy viewing of topics and posts on the forum. Your users will appreciate In-Bulletin’s extended searching capabilities, emoticons, ability to rate topics and use HTML and BB-code to mark up their posts.
Other Discussion Forum front-end features include:
- Unlimited Topics, Posts and Categories
- Hierarchical and chronological views for posts
- Moderators of multiple tiers
- Posts with HTML or BB-Code markup
- Users can mark topics as favorites
- Automatic censorship
- Automatic emoticons in posts (smileys)
- Fully configurable search engine friendly URLs
- User avatars and user signatures
- Quick and advanced search
- Users can rate/vote for topics
- Ability to cross-reference with other website elements
Discussion Forum Administration & Tools
In-Bulletin module automates and facilitates running of online communities and allows site administrators to manage entire discussion forums, users, services, and features through a centralized Administrative Console. In-Bulletin module seamlessly integrates into your In-Portal website’s structure.
Other Discussion Forum management / administrative features include:
- Forum fully integrates into the structure of the website
- Manage all posts and topics throughout the website
- User banning for violations
- Configurable automatic censorship
- Configurable emoticons (smileys)
- Sort, search, filter or mass-edit topics with ease
- Cross-reference with other elements and sections of the website
- Configurable front end output and search parameters
- Configurable automatic e-mail notification for the forum
- Define custom information to be stored for each topic or post
