How Do They Do It?

[+icefall5]

I was just wondering how they keep the OT forum just to members. I know they put all the premium members in their own group, but they can't hide that forum completely from non-premiums. I know this because I have my own forum just like this one. I know they could just deny our access to it, but how do they hide it?

Edited April 12, 2006 by icefall5

[+Mopar]

I was just wondering how they keep the OT forum just to members. I know they put all the premium members in their own group, but they can't hide that forum completely from non-premiums. I know this because I have my own forum just like this one. I know they could just deny our access to it, but how do they hide it?

Your profile says you are 12 years old (it also says you are a moderator here?). How did a 12yr old afford an expensive piece of commercial software like this board is running?

[Pto]

I was just wondering how they keep the OT forum just to members. I know they put all the premium members in their own group, but they can't hide that forum completely from non-premiums. I know this because I have my own forum just like this one. I know they could just deny our access to it, but how do they hide it?

Your profile says you are 12 years old (it also says you are a moderator here?). How did a 12yr old afford an expensive piece of commercial software like this board is running?

 

Its not really that expensive to run this board: Invision Power Board

 

$185.00 for software license seems to be about it.

Many 12 year olds are pretty enterprising. . ..

[+Jeremy]

I was just wondering how they keep the OT forum just to members. I know they put all the premium members in their own group, but they can't hide that forum completely from non-premiums. I know this because I have my own forum just like this one. I know they could just deny our access to it, but how do they hide it?

 

Sure you can. It's an option for the board.

[+icefall5]

I was just wondering how they keep the OT forum just to members. I know they put all the premium members in their own group, but they can't hide that forum completely from non-premiums. I know this because I have my own forum just like this one. I know they could just deny our access to it, but how do they hide it?

Your profile says you are 12 years old (it also says you are a moderator here?). How did a 12yr old afford an expensive piece of commercial software like this board is running?

 

Its not really that expensive to run this board: Invision Power Board

 

$185.00 for software license seems to be about it.

Many 12 year olds are pretty enterprising. . ..

 

I was just wondering how they keep the OT forum just to members. I know they put all the premium members in their own group, but they can't hide that forum completely from non-premiums. I know this because I have my own forum just like this one. I know they could just deny our access to it, but how do they hide it?

 

Sure you can. It's an option for the board.

I don't have my own expensive software, it's called InvisionFree. And by the way, it's free, not $185. I had thought you couldn't hide topics like that, but I just went fiddling with the Admin CP and you can. Surprising to me. If any of you were wondering, the board is Hogsheade School.

 

Oh, and also- I'm not a mod here, I just put the picture there.

Edited April 12, 2006 by icefall5

[+The Leprechauns]

Dear God,

 

Thank you for all your many blessings. I forgot one thing from the list. Thank you, in your infinite wisdom, for not empowering my 12-year old daughter with a copy of InvisionFree.

 

I hope you are having a nice day. And once again, I am very sorry about what I said when I couldn't find the cache last Saturday. I really didn't mean that.

 

Your friend,

Lep

[+AuntieWeasel]

I don't have my own expensive software, it's called InvisionFree. And by the way, it's free, not $185. I had thought you couldn't hide topics like that, but I just went fiddling with the Admin CP and you can. Surprising to me. If any of you were wondering, the board is Hogsheade School.

Goodness, you're an articulate one.

 

In my home town there was a beauty parlor called the Hogshead Beauty Salon. A little more 'truth in advertising' than was good for them, I would have thought.

 

edit: fixed bad quote. BAD quote!

Edited April 12, 2006 by AuntieWeasel

[+Markwell]

Your profile says you are 12 years old (it also says you are a moderator here?). How did a 12yr old afford an expensive piece of commercial software like this board is running?

 

Oh, and also- I'm not a mod here, I just put the picture there.

 

I think you missed Mopar's sarcasm. We're aware that you're not a moderator here. But I think it might be best NOT to use the moderator icon as your avatar. It may confuse some here into thinking you ARE a moderator here.

[Keystone]

I've removed the OP's avatar to avoid confusion.

[+New England n00b]

I was just wondering how they keep the OT forum just to members. I know they put all the premium members in their own group, but they can't hide that forum completely from non-premiums. I know this because I have my own forum just like this one. I know they could just deny our access to it, but how do they hide it?

Your profile says you are 12 years old (it also says you are a moderator here?). How did a 12yr old afford an expensive piece of commercial software like this board is running?

 

Its not really that expensive to run this board: Invision Power Board

 

$185.00 for software license seems to be about it.

Many 12 year olds are pretty enterprising. . ..

 

I was just wondering how they keep the OT forum just to members. I know they put all the premium members in their own group, but they can't hide that forum completely from non-premiums. I know this because I have my own forum just like this one. I know they could just deny our access to it, but how do they hide it?

 

Sure you can. It's an option for the board.

I don't have my own expensive software, it's called InvisionFree. And by the way, it's free, not $185. I had thought you couldn't hide topics like that, but I just went fiddling with the Admin CP and you can. Surprising to me. If any of you were wondering, the board is Hogsheade School.

 

Oh, and also- I'm not a mod here, I just put the picture there.

 

You are using Invision Free. This board is Invision Power Board - you pay for it, you get to tweak it beyond the forum skin.

[Pto]

I've removed the OP's avatar to avoid confusion.

 

Thanks for un-confusing me- I didnt want to think for myself today anyway.....

[bogleman]

Holy cow what was I doing when I was 13. My my how times have changed and so very articulate, I could barely tie my shoes when I was 13.

 

My hat goes off to you (I guess). The “off-topic” boards as well as TONS of other behind the door magic that goes on have peaked my curiosity but not enough for me to ask here.

 

13 – man-O-man, you should be out playing football or something other than worrying about software.

[+Recdiver]

Holy cow what was I doing when I was 13. My my how times have changed and so very articulate, I could barely tie my shoes when I was 13.

 

My hat goes off to you (I guess). The “off-topic” boards as well as TONS of other behind the door magic that goes on have peaked my curiosity but not enough for me to ask here.

 

13 – man-O-man, you should be out playing football or something other than worrying about software.

Or girls...mmmm girls...at 13 I don't think I had much more on my mind...37 years later...hmmm wimmen!

[+icefall5]

Holy cow what was I doing when I was 13. My my how times have changed and so very articulate, I could barely tie my shoes when I was 13.

 

My hat goes off to you (I guess). The “off-topic” boards as well as TONS of other behind the door magic that goes on have peaked my curiosity but not enough for me to ask here.

 

13 – man-O-man, you should be out playing football or something other than worrying about software.

 

Holy cow what was I doing when I was 13. My my how times have changed and so very articulate, I could barely tie my shoes when I was 13.

 

My hat goes off to you (I guess). The “off-topic” boards as well as TONS of other behind the door magic that goes on have peaked my curiosity but not enough for me to ask here.

 

13 – man-O-man, you should be out playing football or something other than worrying about software.

Or girls...mmmm girls...at 13 I don't think I had much more on my mind...37 years later...hmmm wimmen!

 

I don't do football. I think (probably much to your dismay) that football is an amazingly stupid sport. I am on the swim team and I do water polo.

 

With the girls part of that... I won't elaborate

 

Technology (computers, mainly) is my life. If my computer broke or the hard drive fried or something, I would literally start crying. I could not possibly live without my computer. I don't see how you adults could live without them.

Edited April 12, 2006 by icefall5

[+AuntieWeasel]

Technology (computers, mainly) is my life. If my computer broke or the hard drive fried or something, I would literally start crying. I could not possibly live without my computer. I don't see how you adults could live without them.

Can't! My broadband goes down, I get the shakes in minutes flat.

 

I'm glad to see you know what you've got, though. I often wonder if kids have ANY IDEA how deeply cool is the world they're growing up in. I mean, technology all by itself is cool, but technology as an agent of communication is downright going to alter the species. You mark my words.

 

Man, when I was twelve, I hate to think. Geocaching. Skype. Message boards. MMORPG's. I think my head would have exploded with the sheer coolness of it all. I had tinkertoys (they wouldn't let me have an erector set because I was a girl. I taught them not to give me dolls, though: I dissected them).

[ParentsofSAM]

Oh my...13 my girls will be 13 one day! I am so worried. I can not image one of them running a forum or having their own internet accounts.

 

Are your parents ok with you being on forums with adults and that your profile says that you are only 13?

[+reveritt]

Holy cow what was I doing when I was 13. My my how times have changed and so very articulate, I could barely tie my shoes when I was 13.

 

My hat goes off to you (I guess). The “off-topic” boards as well as TONS of other behind the door magic that goes on have peaked my curiosity but not enough for me to ask here.

 

13 – man-O-man, you should be out playing football or something other than worrying about software.

When I was 13, I was seriously into pyrotechnics...loved to blow things up...so give the kid a break. It could be worse.

[+BigWhiteTruck]

I am on the swim team and I do water polo.

 

With the girls part of that... I won't elaborate

 

Technology (computers, mainly) is my life. If my computer broke or the hard drive fried or something, I would literally start crying. I could not possibly live without my computer. I don't see how you adults could live without them.

 

Holy crap.

You could change your name to LittleWhiteTruck.

[+fishingdude720]

When I was 13, I was seriously into pyrotechnics...loved to blow things up...so give the kid a break. It could be worse.

 

He is like me If i tried to run a forum i would have a seizure trying to figure it out. Im only 13 too.

[+icefall5]

Well...... I know what all of you are going to say to this, but it's really not that hard. *Murmurs in the background of "What are you talking about? There's so many buttons.... And.... Yeah!"*

This is a picture of the General Configuration screen. Not that hard to understand.

(Just so you know, the e-mail address isn't blacked out because you can find it on my profile.)

It's a lot to do, but it's not that hard.

P.S. I can also type HTML!

Edited April 13, 2006 by icefall5

[+jiminald]

To hide a board is easy, if you checked the documentation on the invisionfree site! Check this out : http://support.invisionfree.com/index.php?showtopic=2247

 

Oh, I could write HTML and the advanced basics of PHP when I was 15/16, I now develop and co-write major sites at 18. There maybe some hope in you yet!

[+Jeremy]

You got this all sorted out, so I'm closing the topic.