BabyZone’s Message Boards
Our new message
boards have many new features that you can learn more about by reading our FAQ document. In this document we will step you
through how to use your hosting rights on the new boards. Please make sure the first thing you do is go to your profile after
logging in and add some details to your profile about yourself. You don’t have to fill out everything just what you
are comfy with having other users see.
Upon selecting
a users post from the left hand side if you use frames – or from the list of posts on the non-framed version you will
see these buttons at the bottom of their posts
is to hide the posts from the users of the boards. This
feature is helpful if you are really questioning something posted on your boards but you can’t get any input from one
of the community managers or others hosts on the host list – you can hide their post until you get an answer on whether
it’s appropriate. You can also choose to just hide all posts that you know are obvious spam/violations of the CUP. It’s
up to you what you choose.
is used to move posts off your board and on to the Zone Hosts board or
to another board if you have a post that really fits better on another board. For example moms groups for certain cities are
usually best left on the regional boards. In this case you would click on move when you do you are going to see this
| Move This Post... |
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| Welcome to BZ Hosting |
| Posted by: JoJoBZ Posted on 11/15/2005 11:57:46 PM: 0 Replies |
Welcome to BZ Hosting
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| To This Board... |
To this board is
the area in which you will go through the drop down and choose the board you want to move it to. If it’s something we
need off all boards then move it to Zone Hosts (pw for Zone hosts is bz05hostsroc) after clicking move your post will disappear
off the board it was originally on.
This is the button you will use to edit out any offensive or spam materials
from a post that is otherwise ok to post ex: Sally writes “Hey everyone, the baby is growing so fast. Can you believe
he’s now 20lbs! How are all your babies doing with eating solid foods. Sorry I haven’t been around lately. Hope
to get caught up now that things are settled.. Oh btw I’m selling avon now so if anyone wants some check out www.avon.com/sally” In this example her post is fine except for her plug for Avon so you would remove the “Oh btw….”
sentence and leave in the rest. Sometimes you’ll find the whole post is spam in which case you would either move or
hide as talked about above. When you edit someone’s post we would like you to put something at the bottom of their post
to the effect *Edited by host to remove advertisement or something to that effect.
Now at the top
of the posts you will also see the Move option right now this is not working and is on techs list to fix. Once fixed it will
work just like the move option on the bottom we’ve discussed.
Also at the top
of the post you will see this button
this button is so that if a discussion gets out of hand you can lock the
thread where members can still read it but they can’t reply to it anymore. This feature is especially helpful to the
hot topics board hosts where it’s not uncommon to end up with a 100 replies to a post. That starts getting hard for
the hosts to keep up on so they can lock it and of course the users can make another post about it and that’s fine.
This can also be used in polls you still want users to be able to read but you don’t want anymore responses to them.
Another feature
that you will have as a host is the sticky post feature. You will only see this when you are making a new post. You will see
this below the new post type box
