user created forum

[vbted]

Is there a way to give users the ability to "create" there own sub forum? anyone?

[Reeve of shinra]

I'm kind of interested in this for 3.5 as well. I currently have members submit a form and I do it manually. Not to much work but hey, any little bit of automation helps =)

[AN-net]

this violates the license agreement with jelsoft, use the search its been a controversial topic for quite sometime. i think there was some hack about a super host or something.

[da prez]

i don't think letting users add a sub-forum under another forum violates any TOS.

like this :

Main Category
- Forum 1
-- User Created Sub Forum

etc.

i don't think they mean running a forum off their license, just creating a sub-forum.

[Reeve of shinra]

AN-NET -- this is something completely different and should be okay under the TOS since its not hiding the rest of the forums or making it look like a seperate install / site / etc.

[AN-net]

if your giving the user the power to admin his own forum and create forums i believe it still violates TOS

[vbted]

Originally Posted by AN-net

if your giving the user the power to admin his own forum and create forums i believe it still violates TOS

hmmmm.... never thought of that as being a violation.... willhave to look into that.

[Reeve of shinra]

Originally Posted by AN-net

if your giving the user the power to admin his own forum and create forums i believe it still violates TOS

It only violates the tos if your somehow trying to cloak things so that the rest of the sites forums dont show up. If they show up like the presale forum here on vb.org then there is nothing in the tos against that.

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by Reeve of shinra

It only violates the tos if your somehow trying to cloak things so that the rest of the sites forums dont show up. If they show up like the presale forum here on vb.org then there is nothing in the tos against that.

actually you're both right. apparently i heard it from someone who heard it from one of the .com staff, but as long as it displays the forum name (the license site name) and includes said forum name in the navbar (breadcrumb) it's alright, anything else violates the TOS.

theirs also an issue when it comes to assigning moderators i beleive and/or said using getting access to the admincp.

anything else is considered fine i beleive.