Requesting forums is as easy as starting a new thread in this folder. You should title it Forum Request or something similar.
If you're requesting a forum, we need a WEBTAG - as seen above in the address bar.
We also need the forum name, and if it's to be Public, Password Protected, or Restricted access. We assume the person making the request is to be the owner.
If it's to be password protected you need to supply a temporary password for us to set up your forum and for your first access into your forum, then after you've logged into your forum, you can change the forum's password to something else in your Admin > Forum Settings area.
Access levels explained.
Public - Anyone may enter, unless you disable Guest access. If you disable Guest access, your message board will be inaccessible to anyone not registered with the main forums system. They will only see your start page.
Password Protected - You set a password you give it to anyone you want to have access to your forum. They will log into the main system, then they will need to log into your forum.
Restricted - You add people to your forum's member list in your forum's Admin area, then they can enter just like a public forum. Anyone not on the list will get a page telling them they're not a member of your forum. You'll see them on your visitor log to let you know they
tried to visit. This lets you decide if you'd like to let them in or not. If you do, add them to your forum's member list. If not, don't.
It should be noted, site staff does not have access to the contents of the message boards of private forums, unless the forum's owner grants us access in their Admin area. We can access the forum Admin areas to help with system management issues, but not the forum message board, and anything we do there is logged in the Admin log. So the forum owner knows exactly what changes, if any, we've made in helping them with their forum issue.
You can request up to two forums. If you'd like more, each extra one will be decided on a case by case basis, and depending on the number of forums over two, you may be asked for a yearly donation to help support the extra forums you're requesting.
All public access forums come with chat and you're in charge of your forum's chat room. Restricted and Password Protected forums use the personal chat rooms of their members.
Note: Another way of making a private forum is to have your forum as public and it's folders as private. This gives it a regular system created chat room, but making all your folders private hides them and their contents from nonmember visitors. These visitors will see your forum's start page, and a message telling them there are no folders in your forum.
Giving your members access to folder contents is as easy as creating a group and giving the group the folder access you want for your members, then adding members to the group. By the same token removing a member from the group removes their access for the folders.
Each member is also in charge of their personal chat room, which becomes available on registration with the forums system. Here, you don't need to have a forum to have a chat room.
Please give up to 72 hours for your forum to become available. It's usually a lot faster, but at least give us that much time before contacting staff again about it. RL can be a bit consuming at times. We're sure many understand.
A month after your forum request has been filled, your request thread will be deleted. This helps keep new requests more easily available for everyone to know what is new and what is not.