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0 pointsTurboHaskal10y ago0 comments

Such tendency exists, depending on your timezone.

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pavel_lishin10y ago· 2 in thread

I host a general-interest VBulletin forum, which at one point had something like a hundred people posting. One day, we discovered that via the "groups" functionality, there was a whole parasitic forum co-existing with ours - we didn't know it existed, we didn't know any of the people there, and they didn't know us, and the two groups didn't interact at all.

I wonder if it's possible for something similar to happen on specific-interest a messaging board, but just as a function of time zones. (e.g., somehow, most of the population of the board is from Spain and New Zealand, 12 hours apart.)

irl_zebra10y ago

Can you expand on what you were saying about a co-existing forum? I don't think I understand what you mean, but I'm intrigued.

cosmie10y ago

It sounds like a group of people abused the Social Group feature of vBulletin[1] to piggyback off of his forum to have their own little area without having to host their own forum/server. Depending on how vBulletin is configured, you can basically create a wholly independent forum within the Social Group that can't be accessed/seen outside of the group.

[1]http://www.myth-weavers.com/wiki/index.php/Help:VBulletin:So...

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