What to do about spam?
Spam, unfortunately this is one of the things that comes with having an open website. But where there is a decease there is a cure….so also for this one!
Spam, unfortunately this is one of the things that comes with having an open website. But where there is a decease there is a cure….so also for this one!
Your MeetingPoint is all about sharing knowledge and ideas. You can do this via articles, so called Posts. Read more to find out how to do that.
As said, it is al about sharing and discussing on your MeetingPoint. It is really easy to start a discussion. Do like this:
You can insert a video (QuickTime) in your post, to do this follow the next steps:
- Click on “Write a post” in the sidebar of the homepage
- Scroll down to the Upload tool, click on “Browse”…
You can comment to a post but you also can comment to a comment or differently said, you can reply to a comment.
You can insert an image into your post, to do this follow the next steps:
Of course it is important to have a save password to login, but also one that you can easily remember. In order to change yours, do this:
Sharing info about yourself can be very interesting for other people in the community.




You can display RSS feeds from other websites in your MeetingPoint as well. A box will appear in the right column in which you will see the last 5 articles on the websites you added to the feeds category.




With this option you can display a poll on your MeetingPoint.
- If you want a poll, go to the admin panel
- Get to the “Manage” menu, click on “Democracy” in the horizontal navigation
- Scroll down to “Add New Poll”…




Files can be uploaded to and inserted into a post. Follow these steps in order to do so:




In the top of your MeetingPoint you can make use of a horizontal navigation bar, just below the header. There are two types that can be used, a normal category (see Horizontal navigation - Category) or a link category. To benefit more possibilities, use a link category.




This option displays a rating based on the number of times the full article is read. Displaying an image or a character can do this.




The Activity option can be used to display boxes in the sidebar of the homepage with the most commented posts or the most recent comments.




The MeetingPoint you have can be an open or a closed MeetingPoint. If it is closed users can only get to the homepage when they are logged in.