Internet Forum
Internet forums , often referred to as forums for short, also known as forums , discussion boards , etc., are programs that provide online discussions , or websites established by these programs that focus on online discussions. Popularized by Usenet after 1980, online forums mostly technically replaced earlier telephone-based BBS services. Although technically replacing BBS, many forums still retain the "BBS" name.
Forum Management
The webmaster has the ownership of the forum, and the forum is divided into different sections according to the discussion topics. Each section is managed by the moderator , and the administrator or super administrator of some small forums is concurrently held by the webmaster. In order to encourage members to speak, there is a member points system and medals are awarded. Ordinary members have personalized headshots and personal signatures, and members who disrupt the order of the forum will be banned from speaking , IP blocking or cancellation of membership . Some forums allow non-members to speak, while others require registered members to speak.
When posting irrelevant content on the forum, the moderator will move the article to the relevant forum or delete the post directly . Most forums do not encourage flooding and have a special flooding area.
forum program
Forum programs are generally developed by companies or organizations, download or purchase the published program packages, and then use FTP to upload to the web space. The common forum programs are as follows:
Discuz!
Entry: Discuz!
Discuz! is a PHP forum program developed by Kangsheng Chuangxiang (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. , and the latest version is X3.4. The latest version is BIG5 (traditional), GBK (simplified), UTF8 (traditional, simplified), and some people modify it into English and Thai versions.
On August 24, 2010, Tencent formally acquired Consheng Vision, and Discuz! also became a product of Tencent.
PHPWind
Entry: PHPWind
PHPWind is a PHP forum program developed by Hangzhou Detian Technology Co., Ltd. It was seldom known because it was difficult to operate and was rarely used by famous forums. However, since it was acquired by Alibaba , the investment in research and development has increased, and it has become more and more popular with the majority of webmasters, and the development speed is fast. The latest version is 9.0.
PhpBB
Entry: PhpBB
PhpBB was founded on June 17, 2000. Its users cover the world and its supporting software is quite diversified. Because it is simple and easy to use, and it is completely free, and there are fewer program errors , it is very popular.
vBulletin
Entry: vBulletin
Business forum program, no free version. It is written in PHP script language and uses MySQL as the database.
famous forum
Chinese mainland
Typhoon Forum, Sohu Forum, Sina Forum, Baidu Tieba , Tianya Forum , Huasheng Forum, Subway Forum , etc.
Hongkong
The well-known private forums are Hong Kong Discussion Area , Hong Kong Golden Discussion Area , LIHKG Discussion Area , Uwants , 2000FUN Discussion Area, Parent-child Kingdom and so on.
Taiwan
Taiwan Forum , Taiwan City Forum, Architecture City Forum, Bahamut , Pikkick , Catino Forum, Ask Bluegreen Algae, mobile01 , Yisheng Forum , Yili Discussion Area , etc.
Japan
Japan has strict copyright protection, and most forums prohibit the reprinting of pictures. In addition, netizens on forums often use kaomoji . More well-known forums include 5ch , Yahoo Bulletin Board, Ashura Bulletin Board, etc.
Malaysia
Famous Chinese forums in Malaysia include:
- Jiali Forum
- JBTalks
- Yanbong Forum
Controversy and Risk
More: content farms , foul language , porn sites , copyright infringement , cybercrime, online commentators, computer viruses , cyberbullying , dodging & cyberattacks
When well-known social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter began to appear in some countries in 2008, and after many years of promotion, Internet forums in some countries began to lose the number of viewers and members, and later appeared some bizarre phenomena, such as being reported for music file infringement, a large number of advertising articles (mostly related to pornography, assisted dating, and sex drugs, some netizens speculated that this is related to the negligence of managers), and malicious articles that defame someone without knowing the meaning and garbled characters , etc.
- In addition, in Taiwan, with the exception of the Taiwan Forum , which was featured on the major news pages in mid-2012 , most of the Internet has almost disappeared due to the large-scale overwhelming competition from Facebook and other social networking sites (or the management directly uses Facebook to release the news of the shutdown), and it has disappeared without a trace.
- Similar situations exist in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but most of them are caused by external political factors.
see
- BBS
- internet culture
- Internet society