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Hi,

This forum is for people looking to create plugins for Links SQL and have questions about how best to do it. I'm thinking of making this a moderated board, but we'll try it out and see how it goes. It's going to be geared towards people who have an understanding of perl and not just people looking for a mod done.

Cheers,

Alex

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Moderated would be cool...

Perhaps with the recognized authors given post privs. That way they can respond to approved questions.

PUGDOGŪ
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I hope Im not going to be blocked from posting here :)

Plugins seems quite difficult to get to grips with for me...perhaps when someone has time they can write a few instructions explaining all the different fuctions like pre/post hooks and such....



Paul Wilson.
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If this is going to be a moderated forum, I don't know if you had a moderator in mind but I vote for Pugdog.

Paul Wilson.
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suggestions:

- moderated "new threads"
- certain people have permissions that mean new threads do not need to be moderated
- anyone can reply

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Yes...I don't know how hard this would be to do, or whether WWWThreads comes with this feature but I think only certain people should be given "new thread" status. ie Only defined users can start new threads but anyone can reply.

Is that what you were saying padders?

Paul Wilson.
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yes.

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I disagree with this. I think I'm with Alex - leave it as is and see how it goes. If people abuse it, then start adding restrictions.

Who would decide when someone is "good enough" to have new thread privileges? Also, where are these folks suppose to learn through asking questions to become good enough?

I'd like to try my hand at a plug-in at some stage. I hope I'll be considered a "plug-in author" as this board suggests even though I may not have mastered all the fine points of plug-in authoring yet...

Just my 2c

Safe swoops
Sangiro
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We are not saying that you have to be "good enough" to post here, we are saying that only people genuinely interested in making plugins should be allowed to post here.

We were not trying to stop you asking questions and posting in this forum but were saying that only certain people should be allowed to _start_ threads and then anyone can reply.

I agree too that the forum should only be restricted if people start abusing it.

Paul Wilson.
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I understand the rationale behind wanting to minimize the noise in this forum. It's just hard to figure how someone would ask a question if they can't start a thread?

I see one of two ways: One, hope that there is a thread active that is relevant to your question, or two, ask your question in a non-related thread and be the "off-topic" guy!

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Sangiro
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If you read the post I made previously I said that I agree to leave the forum un-moderated for the time being and only bring in a moderator if the forum is abused!

Paul Wilson.
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Paul,

I did read your post... you also said:

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...were saying that only certain people should be allowed to _start_ threads and then anyone can reply.
I was responding to that. I think we're in agreement though. Smile

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Sangiro
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Yes I meant for that to come into action if the forum started to become abused...like it is now by us both. Smile

Paul Wilson.
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It don't mind not being able to post, but would love to read about what is going on.