Posted by
vames on
Jan 08, 2009; 3:18am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Hi-Some-questions-on-forum-functionality-tp2123183p2126176.html
Perhaps it would help you to understand our membership.
We have currently approximately 51 members and this is growing weekly.
As a result of the changes and the forum move we anticipate that there are likely to be approximately 30 members active on the forum.
There are a lot of discussions and we have a mix of members that include prolific posters and some occasional posters and some that just browse.
We have on average 90 new topics a week which attract an average of 12 posts per topic
That is one heck of a lot of unnecessary band width usage if those messages have to be sent by eMail as well as in the group and I do not want hundreds of messages flooding my in box and neither do our members.
We need an eMail moderators function.
We also need an eMail all members function.
This last function should NOT send messages until they have been approved by a moderator.
So we need a moderator alert facility to draw the attention of moderators to the fact that a message needs approval.
Hope this makes sense.
The facility to eMail members and moderators should also be able to be restricted to the members only forums UNLESS we decide that we want to open this up to the public site.
Once the public forum is up and running there is a potential for a huge number of messages.
Our membership consists of some of the largest independent eCommerce sellers in the UK and include eBay sellers with 100,000+ feedback and top 10% sellers.
I don't initially see a huge increase in traffic as far as the forum is concerned and indeed I anticipate a drop in traffic until things settle down.
We are not funded in anyway and currently charge no membership.
We believe in supporting op-en source communities and really like the ethos of what you are doing with nabble.
The nabble2 forum options perfectly fit with being able to embed the forum in our web site and this will help promote our association and also nabble.
Again I hope this helps you to understand a bit more of our requirements.