Article sharing among different boards of like feather

[Big Daddy Chemo]

There are hundreds of scenes that vBulletin plays a central role in organizing members and allowing for open discussion. Usually, a member will join a certain board over another to acquire the knowledge contained within the electronic walls of that particular one. What we aim to do is consolidate information exchange and allow for boards with similiar interests to share posted articles.

Here is how I envision this project:

• All participating boards will make a dedicated article forum
• As members post original research that warrants "electronic publishing" the MOD team will move the thread into the article forum
• A central site uses a script to query each participating board's article forum for new posts.
• If the script finds an article that has not been included it will then grab the first post (usually the article)

What this will allow is a greater degree of interaction, member posting, inter-board relations, and eventually innovation. This system mimics the submission procedure for academic research in that an author presents an article, a review board determines if it is standard or subpar, and publishes it per criteria. Since it is electronic the turnaround time for international (internet) publication and peer review will be measured in hours...not months.

In my scene we are focused on free exchange of ideas and information but are contrained by specialization. Currently, vBulletin sets the standard in organizing small groups (maybe a few thousand) of like minded individuals. If we could somehow centralize the best articles through this type of system the level of functionality of vBulletin will be taken to the next level.

Data to be captured by central board:

• Original Author (membername)
• Post date
• Submitting Board (simple URL)
• URL to remote thread / article so viewers could follow and debate there.
• Contents of article

Ideally this script would be run by cron job but manual execution is still kick ass.

Ladies and gentlemen of the hacking scene,

I call upon you for your sevices in helping change the face of information exchange. This requested hack is rather large but the functionality that will be derived will revolutionize the way we submit, disseminate, and debate innovative ideas.

I thank you in advance for your expert help!

Humbly submitted,

Chemo