Bandido
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Post by Bandido on Dec 19, 2017 22:03:31 GMT -5
Discord Chat If there was a live chatting place, that's surprisingly exciting for me. Posting on general if fine and good, but it would be more comfortable if there was a live chat. Don't have many reasons why to make a discord for CWLnF, just thought it was cool. Discord specifically though, it has more features then most other chat hosts and it's all free then what others offer. There's also a plugin to embed the channel on the forum, for easier access then to go to the actual website and put in the code every time.
Disabled board viewing This is a writing forum, and unfortunately there's no codes or plugins made to disable copy and pasting. So anyone can just walk in here and copy the text of someone else's work and paste it somewhere different and claim it as their own. All that work, taken by some unimaginative butt face. ('But face'? What the?) Maybe only disable guest viewing for the writing on the wall board and the boards specifically made for one user.
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Tanya
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Post by Tanya on Dec 20, 2017 4:16:50 GMT -5
Discord ChatIf there was a live chatting place, that's surprisingly exciting for me. Posting on general if fine and good, but it would be more comfortable if there was a live chat. Don't have many reasons why to make a discord for CWLnF, just thought it was cool. Discord specifically though, it has more features then most other chat hosts and it's all free then what others offer. There's also a plugin to embed the channel on the forum, for easier access then to go to the actual website and put in the code every time. I've heard a lot about Discord but know very little about how it works. I do know that anything chat-wise won't work with how this forum stands right now. The focus for those who pass by is the writing but its not substantial enough yet to bother with chat. Not enough members who are interested to take part. At the bottom of this response back to you. I'll explain more but my answer is no, not now. Disabled board viewingThis is a writing forum, and unfortunately there's no codes or plugins made to disable copy and pasting. So anyone can just walk in here and copy the text of someone else's work and paste it somewhere different and claim it as their own. All that work, taken by some unimaginative butt face. ('But face'? What the?) Maybe only disable guest viewing for the writing on the wall board and the boards specifically made for one user. This is very easy to do so yes, I can do this but on per-member board- case. (writing on the wall stands as is unless its requested by others as well to be viewed within forum only If you want another board added for member viewing only, I'll make it as a sub-board of writing on the wall - just ask and I'll make it happen) Most here who have written want others to see it outside of the forum. They don't concern themselves with theft of their work either. Someone who steals other people's ideas/work is just short of a full stack meaning complete idiots. Things we write online especially are dated and since what we write in on a free platform, it tends to be protected by those dates. Adding in the © to people's work helps that on a legal standpoint. There are tons of others ways to protect ones work as well but most of those cost money.
The one thing you have over most here is you know exactly what kind of forum I was trying to build on the other forum. Your ideas would be fantastic had we ever gained members there. These ideas and the the ideas you mentioned there before as well could have helped us create a very nice writing community. Unfortunately, that forum fell hard. With just you and I, no amount of ideas would have ever worked. Not the way I envisioned and certainly not the way you did either. Having you join here and just let that forum go was the only thing I could think of that might help you do what you wanted to. I didn't want to see you disappear on me like others did. We still need a few more active writer's around here. If you can pull that off, then I'll reconsider the first request. I'll look into it, really look into it and see what all the talk is all about all over other forums. You find other members that will write and discuss and really take writing seriously; then I will take that first request seriously. But we truly do need more people or you'd find yourself in a very empty chat-room. Fair? This forum has bounced back and forth between writing and general chat. It started out as a writing forum before the other forum was made and then because of the type of members I have here, it was turned into a general chat forum but because writing is my thing, I kept a place for it here and dropped art completely off the forum which honestly makes me feel like crap about. (but no one really paid attention to it so it seemed pointless to have) Now, writing is a bigger part of the forum again but done in a casual way. See the problem? I do. Not enough writer-oriented people on board. They can all write but it isn't what most do as a norm. Besides yourself and I. I can think of maybe two others who write in the way we both had in mind. One of them never comes on here anymore and the other has his own forum now and doesn't really go above and beyond that. It's not that I don't know writers, its that the writers I do know have their own forums and they seldom if ever write on other people's forums. Oh, I almost forgot... that butt-face bit isn't my doing. It's a proboards thing since cursing isn't allowed. Not sure what you wrote exactly but seeing that was amusing to me.
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Tanya
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Post by Tanya on Dec 20, 2017 4:33:57 GMT -5
On an aside: Your mention of theft does make me wonder if maybe I should hide my work that is now outside of proboards and make it easier for others to join it so they can read it. At least finished works since I could care less about the works that are unfinished. I mention this because I've watched poetry of mine get stolen and that angers me more than those who steal stories. Bandido Your personal board is now only viewable to members. If you want a board added to 'writing on the wall' that is also only viewable by members, like I said in previous post, let me know.
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Bandido
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Post by Bandido on Dec 20, 2017 11:43:35 GMT -5
Lol, I actually did say "But-face", that was just me questioning myself. xD
Anyway, I do know a few people who write but they're not the type to join a forum for that reason. But I can still try to let people know about this place so getting more members isn't a problem for me. Have you considered entering this place on a search engine? The forum gets hundreds of engine bots every day, so it's more likely to get indexed. CWLnF isn't the desert the previous forum was, so the forum is already off its butt, but it needs to get walking.
Oh, and thanks for making Twisted member eyes only.
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Tanya
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Post by Tanya on Dec 20, 2017 12:22:27 GMT -5
Lol, I actually did say "But-face", that was just me questioning myself. xD Anyway, I do know a few people who write but they're not the type to join a forum for that reason. But I can still try to let people know about this place so getting more members isn't a problem for me. Have you considered entering this place on a search engine? The forum gets hundreds of engine bots every day, so it's more likely to get indexed. CWLnF isn't the desert the previous forum was, so the forum is already off its butt, but it needs to get walking. Oh, and thanks for making Twisted member eyes only. haha, alright, so the buttface thing was intentional. Glad that's cleared up. Was funny though. Looks like you got forums mixed up. That's twice I've seen the old forum mentioned. CWLnF, which is where you started at with me - but also under a different name, is nothing more than a wasteland. Not important. The forum you're on now, the LostnFound, is. As to adding it to a search engine. No, I haven't. LostnFound is a popular and wide used name. Type it in your browser and see what I mean. It would be lost among all that and pretty much already is. The forum is indexed within proboards and shared there in their advertising board but I never really bump it. I've never really done any real advertising for the forum. I was seeing where activity alone would get it. At first, it did fine. Now, not so much. After the first of the year, I'll advertise via. twitter and a few other places including parts of google.(but not their search engine) I like your word choice - get walking. It needs lifted off the ground but... we have a small issue. Did you know people won't join a forum that has several inactive members? Even with small forums, people expect at least 80% to be active. I really would like someone to define what active means because it tends to vary from person to person and group to group. As to people you know not joining just for reasons stated, how about for those reasons and because this is more than a forum for writing? There is a lot more to the forum than just writing. Talking to those who write or at least read, point them here but more importantly, find out what they are looking for in a forum. Most I bet are wanting what I don't have... an RP section. You're welcome.
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Tanya
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Post by Tanya on Dec 20, 2017 12:31:48 GMT -5
This thread was in the wrong place. I moved it into the right one.
The other board is for guests. For those who read but are not a member and for potential members to ask questions. No clue why its empty. I've heard people complain that there wasn't a place for guests to ask questions before joining across several platforms so I made sure I had one from the beginning. I might add a reminder for those passing through but never really stop for long.
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Evil Eye
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Post by Evil Eye on Dec 20, 2017 15:04:50 GMT -5
This is a writing forum, and unfortunately there's no codes or plugins made to disable copy and pasting. Not to be (stealing your wording ) a butt face or anything, but you realise that doesn't work right? Yes, you can make it so people can't select text, but it's pretty easy to get around.
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