Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Typical Citadel BBS screen. Citadel's primary improvement over previous BBS packages was the introduction of the metaphor of rooms as a way to organize topics. Messages are associated with rooms, to which the user moves in order to participate in discussions; similarly, a room could optionally give access to the underlying file system, permitting the organization of available files in an ...
PTT Bulletin Board System – largest BBS in Taiwan, still the most popular online forum in 2018; Purple Ocean – one of the largest North American Gaming BBS's of in the mid-1980s; Rusty n Edie's BBS – raided by the FBI in 1993 and sued by Playboy in 1997; SDF Public Access Unix System - Started in 1987 as an ANIME SIG
An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. [1] They differ from chat rooms in that messages are often longer than one line of text, and are at least temporarily archived. Also, depending on the access level of a user or the forum set-up, a posted message ...
The terms bulletin board, message board and even Internet forum are interchangeable, although often one bulletin board or message board can contain a number of Internet forums or discussion groups. An online board can serve the same purpose as a physical bulletin board, with the added benefit of not being bound by geographical location. Magnet ...
A discussion group is a group of individuals, typically who share a similar interest, who gather either formally or informally to discuss ideas, solve problems, or make comments. Common methods of conversing including meeting in person, conducting conference calls , using text messaging , or using a website such as an Internet forum . [ 1 ]
The Unified MOD Installation Library is a library designed to simplify the installation and uninstallation of the database side of MODs. [62] It is designed to be useful for configuring the forum for the new MOD, performing database actions such as adding and removing tables and columns and purging the forum's cache .
It is solely for discussing whether a consensus can be discerned in a discussion, and how the discussion should be closed on the basis of a finding of consensus, or of an absence of consensus. Editors who are involved in discussions of the merits should generally avoid engaging in extensive discussion of how consensus in those discussions ...
Wikipedia Library. The Wikipedia Library is a resource for Wikipedia editors which provides free access to a wide range of digital publications, so that they can consult and cite these while editing the encyclopedia.