Run a forum

Your organisation has a forum: discussion boards for your members and, if you choose, the people entered in your events. Every member can open it from "Forum" in the sidebar. Only owners set up boards. Owners and event secretaries moderate.

Set up boards

1. Open "Forum" in the sidebar.
2. Under "Add a board", give the board a "Name" and, if you like, a "Description".
3. Choose "Who can read it" and "Who can post". "Members only" means your staff and, for a club, its current members. "Members and entrants" also lets in drivers and co-drivers with a live entry in your events. Posting can never be wider than reading.
4. Choose "Add board".

Each board's "Settings" box changes its name, audience and order, or deletes it. A board that has held a thread cannot be deleted: narrow who can read it instead.

Moderate

Posts are plain text. Web addresses become links; nothing else is formatted. On a thread, moderators can:

• "Pin" it to the top of the board or "Lock" it so it takes no new replies.
• "Hide" a post. Members see a notice instead of the text; moderators still see it, and can show it again.
• Delete a post or, with "Delete thread", the whole thread. The first post and the thread go together.

Members can report a post. Open "Moderation queue" to see reports, oldest first. For each one, hide the post, delete it, or dismiss the report. Every moderation action is recorded in the audit log.

What members get

The author of a thread, and anyone who follows it, gets an email when someone replies. Each email has a link to stop following. Posts are limited to a few links, a few posts a minute and a cap per hour, to slow spam.

For members and entrants, see Use the forum.

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