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[johnsemlak]

I'm going to stick with "forums". "Fora" just sounds so poncy!

Quite agreed.

I'm looking forward to this. What options will they have for pbp games. I'd like to have the kind of options available at www.rpol.net

 

[Morrus]

Well, it's basically just a forum, just like any other on the boards. There's no difference in features or options, except that the "owner" of the forum has control over it.

 

[Creamsteak]

Looks like an interesting idea. I wonder how many PbP games can afford their own little forums...

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Looks like an interesting idea. I wonder how many PbP games can afford their own little forums...

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too...

I'm rather curious but I have a few questions:

1) Can threads from other forums be moved into the new forum?

2) If the "lease" expires or if you simply don't like the idea anymore will the threads that are in there be moved to other forums? (As long as they meet the code of conduct for ENworld and obviously I think if you violate laws your threads are pretty much gone, and or are evidence.)

Thanks for listening to my ramblings.

 

[Creamsteak]

1) Sure, just ask. As long as these forums are on EN World at all, I think any mod can move thread x to forum x.

As for 2, I can only speculate that the answer is probably yes.

 

[Gez]

Isn't the correct latinate plural of forums fora?

Yeah. Names in -us have a plural in -i (fungus -> fungi, virus -> viri, ignoramus -> ignorami, toys'r'us -> tanar'r'i, etc.) Names in -um have a plural in -a (medium -> media, forum -> fora, duodenum -> duodena, rum -> ra, etc.)

Of course, I never studied Latin.

And it's simpler to stick to standard plural when said latin word has a broad enough usage to be considered a valid word in the language you use.

To be put more clearly, the plural of the Latin word forum is fora, but the plural of the English word forum is forums.

And if you use forum in Latin, then you must respect the convention for quoting foreign words: italicise it.

So, the plural of forum is forums, but the plural of forum is fora.

Simpler to stick to forums.

 

[Morrus]

For those keeping track, I've added two "Hosted Forum Add-ons" to RPGNow:

1) Additional forums - each additional forum (i.e. sub-forums within your hosted "category") beyond the first costs $10 per year.

2) Ad-free forums - I doubt many people will be too interested in this one, but if you want to remove EN World's ad banner rotation from your forum(s), it'll cost you $50 extra per year.

You'll find the add-ons here:

http://www.rpgnow.com/default.php?manufacturers_id=276&SRC=EnWorld

So far, we have a few hosted forums and they're ticking along nicely. No problems have arisen, so the experiment is going well.

 

[EricNoah]

Russ, have you gotten any reports of problems with AOL users who are trying to access password-protected forums? I've got a friend on AOL who can get to the forums, can enter the password, can see the threads, but when he tries to post or reply he gets the "not authorized" screen. Any thoughts about that?

 

[Trevalon Moonleirion]

"Funky stuff from history" forum....Yeah, I like the sound of that.

Ooooh... I want to be in that forum!!

 

[Morrus]

Russ, have you gotten any reports of problems with AOL users who are trying to access password-protected forums? I've got a friend on AOL who can get to the forums, can enter the password, can see the threads, but when he tries to post or reply he gets the "not authorized" screen. Any thoughts about that?

No, I haven't heard anything like that. I know someone who uses AOL, so I'll use her PC to see if it's a general problem or an isolated case.