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An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. [1] They are an element of social media technologies which take on many different forms including blogs, business networks, enterprise social networks, forums, microblogs, photo sharing, products/services review, social bookmarking, social gaming, social ...
On January 31, 2011, Canvas officially opened, sending out invitations to users who had previously signed up to receive updates. [8] In March 2011, Canvas made its discussion threads viewable by users who were not registered, while remaining in closed beta status. [9] In early 2011, Poole began to virally market Canvas on sites such as Reddit. [10]
Canvas is used by schools, allowing students to submit assignments, answer discussions, access and upload media using Canvas Studio, and retrieve files from their Google Drive after linking Canvas with their Google Account. Like students, Canvas allows teachers to create assignments, discussions, pages, and modules.
Reddit is a website comprising user-generated content—including photos, videos, links, and text-based posts—and discussions of this content in what is essentially a bulletin board system. [92] [93] The name "Reddit" is a play-on-words with the phrase "read it", i.e., "I read it on Reddit."
Apart from canvassing, these include forum shopping (raising an issue on successive discussion pages until you get the result you want), sock puppetry and meat puppetry (bringing fictional or real outside participants into the discussion to create a false impression of support for your viewpoint), and tendentious editing.
This forum is for discussion closers to discuss their evaluation of consensus in preparation for closing specific discussions, such as pending XfD, RM, or RfC closes. Any editor who intends to close a discussion, and has concerns about how consensus in that discussion should be assessed is welcome to initiate a discussion here.
Groups was one of the world's largest collections of online discussion boards. It allowed members to subscribe to various groups, read subscribed discussions online, view and share photos, files and bookmarks within a group, access a group calendar, create polls for group members, and receive email notifications of new discussion topics.
Wikipedia:Closure requests: is for posting requests to have an uninvolved editor assess, summarize, and formally close a discussion on Wikipedia. Wikipedia:Requests for oversight: suppress edits that breach somebody's privacy, or defame somebody. Wikipedia:Requests for page protection: for requesting that a page, file or template be protected.