Get Your Own Chan A manual to create and run a chan for free

[zenia 0]

Instructions part 4.

 

 

 

Explanation

 

Thank you very much for the responses. The opinions and reactions are very helpful.

 

1. The pictures

 

The pictures are ment to give a sort of an idea how a chan looks like, since a chan is an image board. An image board is a sort of list of messages accomplied with pictures. It looks in a way like a sort of a forum. People can post messages on the chan. The messages can include a picture. New chans offer the option to embed a video of Youtube. In most cases the pictures add information to the post. The first picture is a view of the cockpit of a airplane fighter. This picture is supposed to mean that the buttons to control a chan look like the cockpit to control an airplane fighter. The other pictures are supposed to express the sort of feeling the construction and running a chan can offer. It has to be admitted that the pictures in a chan are thumbnails that can be opened in a seperate webpage to enlarge to the original size of the picture. The pictures are put in the posts to make the topic look colourful.

 

2. Anonymous

 

The users of a chan can post in an anonymous way. This is a difference with a forum. For a forum a user has to register and to provide an email address. A user can post in a chan without giving out much information.

 

3. Several parts

 

The instructions are put in several parts. The main reason to provide the information in different posts is that it asks too much typing to type the complete list of activities in one post. The post would be huge. The post would contain several pages when the complete finished description of the activities would be put into one start post. Another reason is that the all information is not written out yet. A word program is needed to compose the complete instructions. The post window of a forum is not as convenient as a text program to write a big and long compartment of text and words and instructions and explanations.

 

4. Explanation of the picture

 

The picture shows an anime figure. It seems the first chans started as an image board for anime art. It seems that in Japan an anime image board is one of the websites with a lot of traffic. This time a small picture is used.

 

Edited June 10, 2011 by zenia (see edit history)

[zenia 0]

Instructions part 5. Emails

 

 

 

1. Safety

 

This instruction contains the advice to use five email accounts for the chan. There are several reasons for this advice. First of all it is free and easy to make a new email account. So the costs are no issue. Safety is the main reason to make and use several email accounts. The email accounts are used for different purposes.

 

1. 1 email account is used for the back up of the email accounts for the registration.

2. 1 email account is used for the registration of the free domain name.

3. 1 email account is used for the registration of the free website from a free website host.

4. 1 email account is used for the back up of the contact email account.

5. 1 email account is used to give the users of the chan the opportunity to contact the owner of the chan.

 

Those email accounts are all seperated and different. The reason is safety. If one email account get hacked the other accounts can still be safe. This means it can be easy to get the chan running again. It is advised to keep the names of the email accounts secret. And it is advised to use one email account just for one registration. The email account name of the contact email is the only email name that is published. When the other four email accounts are not used for anything else and just for the registration of the free domain name with the domain name registratar and for the registration of the free website at the site of the free domain host almost nobody will be able to find the name of the email account. This will make it harder to hack the account or to find the pass words of the accounts. There are two different email accounts used to back up the registration email accounts and the user contact email account. When the email account to contact the users is hacked the information of the other back up account of the registration email accounts can still be safe and can keep available. When this happens the name of the back up email account of the registration email accounts keeps invisible and unknown to the hacker.

 

2. Control

 

The registrar of the free domain name and the webhost of the free website send the control information of the account of the free domain name and the website to the email account, that is used to register and obtain the domain name and the website. Several different email accounts are used to prevent that the email accounts get hacked. When the emails get hacked the control of the website gets lost. To prevent that the email accounts get hacked it is advised to use seperate email accounts for each part of the registration. The advice is to use one email account just and only for one registration and for nothing else. When the email account is not used for emailing and the name of the account is not told to anybody else the possibility that the email account get hacked is minimized.

Edited June 10, 2011 by zenia (see edit history)

[manuleka 0]

thanks for omitting the images i'm wondering whether you are working on this chan forum and post your tutorial from progress????

[zenia 0]

Manual. Part 6. A free domain name.

 

 

 

1. Registrar

 

There are several websites that offer a free domain name. A free domain name has several advantages.

 

1. The free domain name can hide the name of the webhost. That makes it harder for a hacker to find the webhost.

2. The domain name can be shorter compared to a subdomain name. This makes it more easy for people to remember the domain name.

3. The domain name is for free.

4. The domain registrar is a different website than the webhost. When the webhost account gets hacked it is easy to set up a new chan with the same name.

 

Some options for a free domain name registrar are:

 

http://www.co.cc/

http://www.nic.cz.cc/

http://www.dot.tk/en/index.html?lang=en

 

The idea is to use one of the email accounts made in step 3. The register process of the registrar asks for an email account.

 

http://www.co.cc/ offers two free domain names.

http://www.dot.tk/en/index.html?lang=en needs 25 unique visitors during 90 days to keep the domain name working. This means that the website doesn't stay online when the amount of visitors is too low.

 

Another option to get a domain name without paying any money is to obtain a domain name using the credits, myCENTS and xistodollars earned by posting in this forum of http://forums.xisto.com/.

Edited June 10, 2011 by zenia (see edit history)

[zenia 0]

Correction.

 

The idea is to use one of the email accounts made in step 3.

The idea is to use one of the email accounts made in step 1, described in part 3.

 

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[manuleka 0]

the way you're presenting the tutorial in parts and correcting them after makes it a lot more disorganized... i think it's best if you collect all this information and then make a single thread with a single long post....

[zenia 0]

Instructions part 7

 

The first post contains essentially all information that is needed to set up a chan. The other parts of the instructions are explanations of the steps in the first post. The explanations are ment to make it easier for somebody to set up a chan and to run the program to set up a chan. Some of the settings in the config.php file need to be adjusted. This is essential for the information of the database. The information in the config.php is probably clear for a lot of people. Some people may find it useful to have some instructions and some explanation available.

 

Since the first post contains most of the information in very short instructions the first post can be seen like the instructions list.

 

What can be added to the instructions list is to get a bunch of empty pieces of paper and a pencil and a pen. The information provided to set up the email accounts and the webhost accounts can be writtern down on the pieces of paper. This makes it more easy to control the accounts later on. The issue of keeping this information safe without letting others see the paswords and the account names is obvious.

[zenia 0]

the way you're presenting the tutorial in parts and correcting them after makes it a lot more disorganized... i think it's best if you collect all this information and then make a single thread with a single long post....

Instructions part 8

 

 

 

Explanation of the way this topic is set up.

 

It is much more fun to add to this topic a small piece of information each time the occasion rises in stead of writing a long list of instructions on a word process program and to post this document all at once when the writing of the instructions is finished.

[zenia 0]

Instructions part 10

 

 

 

 

Plagiate

 

In a topic that can be found in the basement of the forum Admin vujsa explains a little bit about spam and plagiate. If a member of the staff thinks that a post contains content, that is copied from another webpage and that is pasted into a post on the forum that post can get deleted. An amount of 150% of the mycents that are earned by the post gets deducted from the credits of the poster. To avoid the risk that a complete tutorial gets deleted it seems more safe to write instructions about something and to post the instructions part by part. Answers to posts of other members, mistakes in the texts, words and grammar and the use of certain words and the way sentences are built can indicate that the information and the content are invented and written by the member who puts the post in the thread. In most cases the way an article is written shows very soon that the article is copied from a source on the internet. For instance the distance way of speaking, the professional use of words and terms and the overall professional look of an article show and indicate very fast that the content is copied from another source.

 

The possibility, that a post is considered plagiate because of the high level of the content, is not a big issue in this thread. The possibility, that mycents are lost because a post is unintentionally considered to be copied and pasted and to be plagiate is a risk that is worth to be avoided.

 

This thread deals with this topic too.

 

About negative mycents

 

The risk of getting a tutorial deleted because it looks like an article written by somebody else is a little bit off topic. So there is reason to point to another thread about this subject. While it is stated in this thread that it looks nicer and more organized when a set of instructions are posted in one complete piece and in one post in the department of the forum dedicated to tutorials it seems appropiate to respond to that opinion in this thread too.

 

To give complete information and to back up the information given in this post and to give a kind of proof that the information is based on a another post found in another department of the forum the text of the post of Admin vujsa is posted and quoted here too.

 

 

Recently, I have notice a large amount of junk posts here that seemed to slip by our staff. As I see this junk, I will be deleting it unless it negatively affects the flow of the discussion. When I delete these posts, 1.5 times the number credits that the post earned will be deducted from the users account. This is automated as a punishment for posting junk. I have no control over your credits and I cannot manually adjust your credits up or down.

 

Junk: one line or very small posts or posts that are off topic or make no sense!

Spam: Unsolicited or inappropriately submitted links or any referal links posted!

 

Junk posts are deleted. If there are enough of them we ban you or suspend your account.

Spam posts are deleted and you will be banned!

 

"But I didn't spam and my post was rather large!"

This happen when the topic that you posted in gets deleted. I hate when this happens since it punishes good members for the bad behavior of bad members. PLEASE, don't reply to junk or spam! Use the report this post button or PM a staff members. If you really want to be a good neighbor, you can simple add a one line post like so:

[quote]This topic is junk, do not reply to it.[/quote]

This won't cost you anything in credits when deleted because quoted material is ignored by the credit script!

 

Pointing this stuff out to staff and other members will greatly reduce the amount of spam that we have here. As a result, we will be better enabled to provide you with the assistance you need when you need it instead of trying to sort through all of the junk!

 

One additional thought, if you think that there is a possibility that an article has been plagiarized, don't reply to it. Again, these topic or posts will be deleted and your post may go with it!

 

Thank you for your cooperations in this matter.

 

vujsa

Link to the post of Admin vujsa.
Edited June 20, 2011 by zenia (see edit history)

[zenia 0]

Some members posted something about this subject.

i was wondering what chan is... with a bit of googling, it's an image/pics forum... i think this should've been posted on tutorial forum...

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2. You wrote this manual or tutorial in many posts.

I don't know why, but my Xisto Forums view is in a tree standard format and I have to click each link to open up your new posts. There is no limit to the amount of characters a post can contain. Your thread would've been much better had you included all the information in the first post. In the future, keep it all on the first post.

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the way you're presenting the tutorial in parts and correcting them after makes it a lot more disorganized... i think it's best if you collect all this information and then make a single thread with a single long post....

Thank you for bringing this up. The responses in the other posts might explain why this subject is brought to the forum in many pieces.

[yordan 10]

I don't know why, but my Xisto Forums view is in a tree standard

You can fix that if you look at the "options" menu, and switch back to "standard" mode.