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Arnaud HERVE

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{quote format_guid="bbcode" comment_id="7756" user="arnaudherve"}I had a surprising request from a friend this afternoon, and I thought I should share it here because I wonder if it could be related to BitBoards.

That guy is a professor giving lessons of physiology to students who want to become sports teachers. He doesn't give lessons in specific sports, he just deals with the general part that students of any sport will have to pass.

Of course he created a website to publish his lessons, and attract more students. He told me he wanted to add a forum, so I installed PunBB in a new directory. Today he phones me because he &quot;can't get it working&quot;, and it turns out that what he wants in fact is being the only one allowed to answer posts, as the professor.

My first thought was that in fact he wants a FAQ system, like presently available in Tikiwiki.

But am I wrong in suspecting that the basic structure is already present in BitBoards, and it just needs more specific user rights?

i.e., for a specific forum that I will name &quot;Student's questions&quot;, I will set the rights as such:

- Registered group is only allowed to create threads
- Editors group is allowed to answer

This can be surprising at first in the sense that we are used to see cases of the &quot;important guys&quot; creating threads and the &quot;small folk&quot; answering and being moderated. But from the point of view of coding, nothing prevents the contrary.

Wouldn't that be more elegant and &quot;lean and clean&quot; than creating a separate FAQ machine?

I tend to think that professor's request is not exceptional.

EDIT: that would not be exactly like a FAQ in the sense that poster would be able to use verbose questions like in a forum post: &quot;Dear Sir, sorry to ask so late, but I had to bring my dog to the vet first, and it was really a terrible week, but well to put it shortly the question I wanted to ask was...&quot;{/quote}