Forum (Reddit)

Designing the Forum channel

Forum is a channel that replicates social forums such as Reddit. In this channel, information is organised in Communities, where personas and players can contribute posting content, searching for information and investigating profiles.

For available actions for players in the Forum channel, visit the page below:

Forum (Reddit)

Benefit

Reproduce an online ecosystem based on communities, where information is categorised by topic and ranked by community votes.

Features

Users and Communities

In Forum, there are two different entities, Users and Communities. They are differentiated by the letter prior to the username: u/ identifies a user and r/ identifies a community.

Users

They represent an individual (a player or a persona) or a brand

Communities

Create a Forum community

1. Navigate to Communities

Navigate to Configuration and Channels, select Forum and see Communities in the right-hand panel:

2. Complete the community page

Complete the Community page with:

• Name

• Handle (r/)

• Description

• Creation date

• Stats (Number of members, members online and no. of posts)

You can also decide which type of community you would like to create:

Public

Everyone can view the community and submit posts.

Restricted

Private

3. Create a moderator

Click on the Community moderators field to get a dropdown of available personas. Select which ones you want to give Moderator permissions.

For personas assigned as Moderators, make sure impersonation is set up. This allows players assigned those positions to role-play as that persona and therefore moderate that community.

4. Historical content

Create historical content for the community so it is populated before the exercise begins:

Forum Styling

In Configuration, navigate to Player desktop and locate Forum. Here, you can configure the style of Forum, customising the icons for Home, Create Post, and Create Community: