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Weblad wrote:

Well, I don't see what would be so bad about making a forum. Your mom lets you post on forums, right? Otherwise you wouldn't be there. Since she lets you post on them, why wouldn't she let you make them?

i'm just worried.

777w wrote:

i dont get the whole deal with making forums
maybe everyone just wants to have power and be an admin for themselves

That might be the case for a lot of people.
I made a few forums a while back. I think my motivation was that it felt cool to actually be the owner of a forum.

I think forums are a great way to make a website unique. I put one on my blog, and my views have increased a little. What do you plan on doing with your forum? If it's over a certain topic, tell her that it will allow you to network with like-minded people. In fact, you could tell her that she could make an account and monitor it 24/7.

As to what you should use, I like Nabble forums. They're quick, easy, and look professional. However, I've seen some very impressive PunBB forums. Anyway, if you want to see what Nabble can do, just click on my siggy and go to rewrite forums. 

RedRocker227 wrote:

Haha, my mum doesn't even know I post here, let alone have my own forums.

777w, when I made mine, I originally just made it to see how forum-y stuff worked from an Admin's view, then it started getting a few users, so I thought "m'kay, maybe I should take this seriously". Now I just use it as a normal forum and to help my PHP knowledge improve. ^^

None of parents know about anything, either. They don't know about my blog, or Scratch, or my various social accounts (all under the alias Joseph Radke, of course). I just think that sometimes parents can get in the way of letting you reach your full potential. It's not like I'm running a hate blog or anything, and my forums posts are generally nice (right?). All the other stuff is to advertise my blog.

WingsGames wrote:

RedRocker227 wrote:

Haha, my mum doesn't even know I post here, let alone have my own forums.

777w, when I made mine, I originally just made it to see how forum-y stuff worked from an Admin's view, then it started getting a few users, so I thought "m'kay, maybe I should take this seriously". Now I just use it as a normal forum and to help my PHP knowledge improve. ^^

None of parents know about anything, either. They don't know about my blog, or Scratch, or my various social accounts (all under the alias Joseph Radke, of course). I just think that sometimes parents can get in the way of letting you reach your full potential. It's not like I'm running a hate blog or anything, and my forums posts are generally nice (right?). All the other stuff is to advertise my blog.

+1 to all of that.

XenoK wrote:

Our parents didn't exactly grow up with the technology that we have today, making them cautious about what they are to let their offspring do while on the internet, a natural thing.  But, there's always that they're older, and they know what is best for us.

(Or so they think)

XenoK wrote:

Our parents didn't exactly grow up with the technology that we have today, making them cautious about what they are to let their offspring do while on the internet, a natural thing.  But, there's always that they're older, and they know what is best for us.

actually my parents perfectly understand todays technology, as do my grandparents

777w wrote:

XenoK wrote:

Our parents didn't exactly grow up with the technology that we have today, making them cautious about what they are to let their offspring do while on the internet, a natural thing.  But, there's always that they're older, and they know what is best for us.

actually my parents perfectly understand todays technology, as do my grandparents

no, I'm saying even though they can understand it, they can also be overly cautious at the same time.

You could present it to your mom as something you want to do to help you learn more - like RedRocker said, to improve your PHP knowledge. Or if saying PHP would be too technical, you could say it's something a lot of people your age are doing and learning about and you don't want to get left behind. "This will help me get better grades/get into a better college/get a better job one day" is language all parents understand! 

Hey, i guess if you reassure her by telling that it is really safe, you wont have any problem.
To me, Forumotion is the most secure to create forum because they ban all illegal forums. www.forumotion.com

joletole wrote:

RedRocker227 wrote:

Haha, my mum doesn't even know I post here, let alone have my own forums.

777w, when I made mine, I originally just made it to see how forum-y stuff worked from an Admin's view, then it started getting a few users, so I thought "m'kay, maybe I should take this seriously". Now I just use it as a normal forum and to help my PHP knowledge improve. ^^

That is bad...what if you signed up for Community Mod, won, then when confirmation came, what would you do?

I'm never gonna run for Mod, so that won't be a problem. ^^