Frequently Asked Questions

A forum is an online discussion made of posted messages, known as "posts". A forum may also include sub-forums. Forums and sub-forums contain topics of discussion, which are themselves made up of posts.

Forums are available on Groups, Contests, and the profiles of Official User and Motionmaker.

Only group or contest administrators, Official Users and MotionMakers can create forums.

1. Go to the group/Official User/Motionmaker profile page
2. Click on the "administration" tab
3. In the left column, click "forums"
4. Click on "Start new forum" and title the forum
5. Click on "Start new forum" to finish creating your forum

The forum is now live. You and other users can start creating topics immediately.

Only group administrators, Official Users and Motionmakers can edit or delete forums.

When editing a forum, you can only change its title. Deleting a forum is final and irreversible.

1. n-page profile of the group or user, click on "forum"
2. Select the forum that you want to edit or delete
3. Click on the red Edit button to change the forum title, or click the Delete button to delete the forum

A topic is a discussion thread where users can add posts.

Only logged users can create topics.

1. On the forum page, click "create new topic"
2. Give the topic a title and write the first post
3. Click "start new topic" to validate your post

Topics can be edited only by the forum administrator, or the user who created the topic.

1. Select the topic you want to edit
2. Click on "edit" change the topic title
3. Click on "edit topic" to validate

Only forum administrators or the user who created the topic can delete a topic.
When you delete a topic, you also delete all of its posts. Deleting a topic is irreversible.

1. Select the topic you want to delete
2. Click on "delete"
3. A pop-up appears to confirm
4. Click "confirm"

You may want to make some topics - such as forum rules, or common questions within a forum - permanently visible at the top of a forum. Doing this is called "pinning" a topic. You may also want to prevent further posts from being added to a topic. This is called "locking" a topic.

Only forum administrators can pin or lock a topic.

1. Go the selected topic page
2. At the top right of the page, click the icon xx to pin xx to lock the topic.

You can unlock or unpin a topic by clicking on the icon again.

Only logged in users can post to a topic.

1. Go to the topic
2. Write your post and click "add new post"
3. Your post is added to the topic

If the forum is moderated, the post will be published following the forum administrator's approval.

1. Go to the topic
2. Insert the video url in the "embed video" field

Videos cannot be removed from a post once they have been embedded. To remove an embedded video, you must delete the post.

A post can be deleted only by its author, the user who wrote it in the first place.

1. On your post, click "delete"
2. The post is deleted immediately. This action is final.

Posts can only be edited about 2 minutes after the post was created or last edited.

1. Go to the post you want to edit
2. Click on "edit"
3. Edit your post and click "edit post" to validate

Inappropriate posts can be reported by clicking on the "report" button below each post and then completing the necessary fields.

Spurious reports may result in your account being disabled.

Reported posts are reviewed by our support team. Trolling or making spurious reports may result in your account being disabled. Making threats or engaging in hate speech may result in transmission of your IP address to the relevant authorities.

Only group owners or moderators, Official User and Motionmaker can administrate forums.

In case of moderated groups or contests, the respective forums will be pre-moderated and the administrator will be responsible for validating all posts prior to publication.

For unmoderated forums, only reports from the community regarding posts flagged as "off topic" or "duplicate" will be reviewed by administrators of the forum.

Each time a post is removed, the author will be informed by email notification.

Note that moderation cannot be enabled for Official Users' and Motionmaker's forums.

1. Go to the group/Official User/Motionmaker/contest profile page
2. In the left column, click on "forum"
3. The dashboard will display the numbers of "reported posts" and the numbers of posts "awaiting validation" (moderated forums only)
4. Approve or decline posts as necessary

1. Go the dashboard administration page
2. Click on any forum to access the moderation panel
3. • - The first tab, "awaiting validation" will display the number of posts needing review in a moderated forum
   • - The second tab, "reported posts", will display all posts flagged by the community
   • - The third tab displays all posts published in the forum, including previously approved and declined posts
4. After you select a tab there are two ways to moderate posts:
   • Expand one or all posts and simply approve or delete them by using the approve/decline buttons
   • Alternatively, use the bulk moderate feature by ticking the boxes next to each post and then approving or declining. For moderated group forums, declined posts won't be published.