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How would you make an online community like this?
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So. My friend wants to start up a community website. He wants people to be able to submit articles/posts without needing to log in - we want this to be anonymous. We'll capture IPs in case anyone does anything stupid/illegal and we don't catch it, but we want some kind of blogging/posting software (PHP & MySQL preferred) that allows anonymous, moderated posting.
I've looked at WordPress, but I can't seem to find any plugins that allow moderated anonymous posting (preferably with a captcha of some kind to keep out spambots). Livejournal's software is the same way.
I'm starting to think that phpBB or vBulletin is the way to go. IIRC both these forum apps allow anonymous, moderated posting, as well as allowing user accounts. We were wanting a blog sort of layout, but is there any open-source blog software that allows what we're looking for, or do we need to go with a forum-style design?
Anyone have any experience with this kind of thing?
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For WordPress, could you perhaps just create a universal user account and make the login and password public?
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Wiki. No experience with one, and not sure if any allow "anonymous" edits, but I wouldn't be surprised.
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But can a wiki do a blog layout? As in, the articles in descending chronological order, paged every 20 articles or so...
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Without registration you'll become spambot target number one. You will spend 10 hours a day looking at IP addresses and pulling your hair out.
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Which is why we were looking at a twofold mechanism to prevent that - captchas and moderation...
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Originally Posted by shifuimam 
Which is why we were looking at a twofold mechanism to prevent that - captchas and moderation...
Then human spammers will drive you crazy all day. A popular forum isn't as easy to run as it looks. You need registration so you can block email addresses and domains if a registrant is a spammer. If you block IP ranges you could be blocking normal web users who share the same external IP address or range as spammers.
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you could code this in Ruby on Rails in under an hour 
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we don't have time to stop for gas
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I personally recommend Drupal.
It is an excellent open source content management system.
If you want just a forum and have the money to spend.. I would recommend vBulletin.
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Originally Posted by Peter
you could code this in Ruby on Rails in under an hour
Is that pretty easy to pick up? They made it seem like th easiest thing on earth when it came out, but I never looked into it further.
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there is a ruby on rails screencast where they walk you through the creation of something very similar to what you want
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Alternatively, you could use something like kusaba, wakaba or some other script that people use for any of the various 2chan clones. Completely anonymous, quite straightforward.
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Originally Posted by Peter
you could code this in Ruby on Rails in under an hour
You can't even setup the software to run Ruby in under an hour. Also, Ruby has a fairly steep learning curve with it. You have to figure out all of the folder structures (which are weird), you have to get the mod-rewrite stuff working, and then you have to figure out the syntax (which is different than pretty much any other popular language out there today). I'm not saying it is bad, I'm just saying that it has a steep learning curve before it makes things easier for you.
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Originally Posted by torsoboy
You can't even setup the software to run Ruby in under an hour. Also, Ruby has a fairly steep learning curve with it. You have to figure out all of the folder structures (which are weird), you have to get the mod-rewrite stuff working, and then you have to figure out the syntax (which is different than pretty much any other popular language out there today). I'm not saying it is bad, I'm just saying that it has a steep learning curve before it makes things easier for you.
Are you sure you're thinking about the right language, not Lisp or something?
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