Internet forum

Internet forum users can discuss with the facilities available on the internet. This Internet-based forum has been known since 1995, and functions much like even better than the internet bulletin boards and mailing lists that have been around since the 1980s.

Membership and anonymity
Forum anonymous offer full anonymity or pseudo-anonymity, allows sending anonymous. CAPTCHA, email authentication, and tripcode is applied in ways to prevent spam attacks on anonymous forums.

Members who registered on the forum has a better right, such as the ability to edit their own kirimannya, start a topic, setting and controlling access to another user profile. Members diindentifikasikan with username (username) that is unique. Profiles generally have a picture in the form of avatars and signature blocks are added at the end of each post. Members also have the right to send personal messages to other users. Sometimes registered members also have the right to delete posts and close the topic before they enter.

Administrators and moderators
A forum administrator has the ability to edit, delete, move or make changes to an existing topic on the forums. Administrators generally also have the ability to close the forum, forum tool change, skin change globally, modify the forum, and ban, delete or add members in the forum. Generally moderators permissions can be delegated to other forum members. Moderators have fewer skills than administrators, among them is to edit, delete, move topic, commemorating members of the submissions that are considered rude, or change the details of the forum. To become a moderator, members must first send an application letter to the administrator via private message (Private Message / PM).

Software
Forum software packages are widely available on the internet, and written using many programming languages, like PHP, Perl, Java and ASP. Configuration and data of each shipment can be stored in text files or databases. Each package offers different features, ranging from just sending a text to support multimedia and formatting with the code (known as BBCode). Many packages can be integrated easily into existing web pages.

Some Internet applications, such as blogs also use a similar feature with forums. Comments on Wordpress at the bottom of the blog provides a topic of discussion capabilities to a blog post.

Internet forum software is divided into two kinds of licenses are free (freeware) and paid. Free Sample packages include phpBB, SMF, MyBB, YaBB, Snitz, Forumer, and PuBB. While the pay packages such as vBulletin, IPB and UBB.Classic.

Ethics
Shipments Double
Violation of the forum's most lots are the double delivery in the same forum. This can also refer to the person who sends in a different forum but have little differences in the content, especially in forums that allow users to edit previous posts. In this case, the number of users can post to the same bertambah.Masalah that can happen is the delivery of cross-examination, that is sending the same topic in several different forums.

Spam
Spamming is a violation of ethics forum where users send the same word or phrase repeatedly, but differs from the double posts because sending spam is intended for intentional and sometimes with bad intentions.

Sanction
To members who violate the rules of the forum will be subject to sanctions. Sanctions can be given a stern warning, temporarily blocked the most severe and is blocked permanently.

Source : www.wikipedia.com