Forums
If you want to share your thoughts, keep people informed about the latest events, or talk to like-minded individuals about any subject - use Spider Network's secure forums. As the administrator you have full control over who can read, post and moderate messages in an unlimited number of forums - which can be open to all, or targetted by a wide variety of demographic or access controlled features.
- Keep a history of conversations and brainstorming sessions - ideal if you want to be able to recall key decisions
- Provide a means of diseminating news and ideas - and get feedback instantly
- Keep your members returning to your site - discussion rooms are extremely popular with internet users
- Give your members an area for technical support questions
- Allow people to talk to each other about the things that interest them, with others that share the same interests
| Practical Features | |
| Unlimited rooms | There is no limit to the number of rooms you can create |
| Threaded conversations | Easily track the progress of a conversation, including all the replies |
| Access controlled | Create rooms for all, or just for a group of people - the choice is up to you, you can mix and match how you like |
| Access levels | Give some people read/write access, others read only access |
| Full moderation | You can edit or even delete postings if you wish - there is also a built in reporting system for your member to report postings that break your rules |
| Multiple views | You can view your rooms and the postings in many different ways, each of your members can chose the view they like the best |
| Stickies | Create threads that always stay at the top of the room - for special announcements |
| Freeze threads | Mark a thread as frozen and no one will be able to add another posting to it - great for the times you want to end a conversation on a topic! |
| Read/Unread counters | Immediately see the postings you have yet to read, or show all the postings - the choice is yours! |
| Emoticons | A full range of animated icons to make your rooms sparkle |
| Member Signatures | Each of your members can have their own signature added to the bottom of each post they make |
| Integration | Integrated support with email and address book capability |
| HTML Support | Support for HTML messages and SmartIcons |
| Subscribing | Support for subscribe/unsubscribe model |
