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.
Reproduce an online ecosystem based on communities, where information is categorised by topic and ranked by community votes.
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.
They represent an individual (a player or a persona) or a brand
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:
Everyone can join
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 Historical content
Create historical content for this community so it is populated before the exercise begins.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.
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