Grouphug-alike platform?

March 12, 2006 3:29 PM

I'm looking for a platform to run a "grouphug" style site - in the sense that anyone can post, and all posts are moderated and anonymous.

I know that there are probably ways to do this with the larger CMSes but I'd like to keep it very light and simple. It seems like something that wouldn't be incredibly difficult to create from scratch, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel.

posted by thedaniel to computers & internet (3 comments total)

by anonymous do you mean the comments would not be associated with a handle, or by anonymous do you mean you wouldn't keep the sign up data or require valid email addresses, etc.?
posted by tiamat at 4:19 PM on March 12, 2006

There isn't any need for a platform, a site like grouphug is trivial to write with a language like php.

you need three scripts - a posting script and a viewing script, and a moderation script.

The posting script displays a form, and when submitted (back to itself) puts the contents of the form into a database.

The viewing script grabs a random N rows from the database, and formats them nicely for web view.

The moderation script allows basic search, or browsing by every 100 entires. Each entry is displayed with a "delete" button. Clicking delete removes the row from the database.
posted by b1tr0t at 4:31 PM on March 12, 2006

I wonder if http://ning.com might have something you could clone?
posted by craniac at 7:15 AM on March 13, 2006