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 see here.

Benefit

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

Features

• Players can create their own communities or posts

• Content is ranked by votes and engagement can be spoofed

• Enables social drill down for profile investigation

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

Dedicated threads to talk about a specific topic

Create a Forum community

1. Navigate to Communities

Ensure that Conducttr Lite mode is turned off and navigate to Personas and then Communities.

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 join

Restricted

Everyone can see posts but only approved members can post

Private

Only approved member can view and post

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 Historical content

Create historical content for this community so it is populated before the exercise begins.

Forum Styling

In Style, Channel Configuration and after locating 'Forum' from the dropdown you can configure:

• Following - if all players follow everyone or you select the initial following, picking specific persona

• Icons and text - how the Home, CreatePost and Community icons will appear in the Virtual Desktop.