Community Web Administration Board

[SugarD]

The idea is simple: Add a board to Argo Forums that only admins of websites and forums hosted on the Argonath RPG domains/subdomains have access to.

Given recent events, it is clear that communication between these website and forum Administrators is vital. Giving them a place to all come together and check for situations regularly would ensure that any attacks on the community, vulnerabilities found, or community-wide changes/bans could be effectively notified and applied to everyone administrating a website and/or forum on the Argonath RPG domain/subdomain systems. This makes it much easier and faster for incidents to be controlled during attacks, and it also provides a much more successful way to prevent further or future attacks from happening.

This board, and it's membergroup which grants the access, would have no additional permissions from that of a regular member, but would still be only accessible to those mentioned above. Given the fact that not all of Argo's website and forum Administrators hold a Manager or Developer rank in a community server, it is very important that a better line of direct communication be set up. Past and recent events can back this up too.

[[Rstar]Paul]

There already is one. Visible to those who have global moderator rights.

[SugarD]

There already is one. Visible to those who have global moderator rights.

I'm not talking about here on Argo Forums. I'm talking about people for the various websites and forums across Argo. They are not granted access to that board.

I'm speaking in terms of all of the Administrators within the community who host something on Argo's subdomains. Not all of them have rights on Argo Forums to see that board.

[Huntsman]

I'm not talking about here on Argo Forums. I'm talking about people for the various websites and forums across Argo. They are not granted access to that board.

I'm speaking in terms of all of the Administrators within the community who host something on Argo's subdomains. Not all of them have rights on Argo Forums to see that board.

why would they need that?

[SugarD]

why would they need that?

I explained that pretty detailed in the first post.

[[Rstar]Paul]

Yeah, we talk about sub domains in that board.

[SugarD]

Yeah, we talk about sub domains in that board.

Then why does no one have access to it? :P

[[Rstar]Paul]

As I said before, global forum moderators do. Don't know why others don't, so.

[SugarD]

As I said before, global forum moderators do. Don't know why others don't, so.

I'm not talking about Global Forum Moderators. I'm talking about anyone who is an Administrator on a website or forum hosted on *.argonathrpg.eu or *.argonathrpg.com. That includes anyone hosted there, regardless of their group's status. As far as I know, no one has access to the board you mentioned that fits that category unless they have a specific community server rank of Manager or higher.

[[Rstar]Paul]

Even though we still discuss it in the Web Management board which is only visible to Managers with Global Moderator rights as you said, then I don't mind seeing another board for it for sub domain admins.

[SugarD]

Even though we still discuss it in the Web Management board which is only visible to Managers with Global Moderator rights as you said, then I don't mind seeing another board for it for sub domain admins.

Well the reason why I feel it's important is because there is currently very little communication between them, and as we've seen countless times before, some attacks can affect multiple subdomains. Even Teddy and I can attest to that. There was an incident last year where the same attack happened to both ARFD and FBI's subdomains through a FTP breach from a separate service, and we had to work together to investigate and resolve it. I don't mind if the current board for Global Moderators is used instead, or if another is made. I just want to see something secure that all of the website and forum Administrators have access to. A lot of these situations could easily be avoided and resolved then. AREF is another good example in the recent attacks. It's forum is outdated by 2 versions, which is one of the possible methods being looked at in regards to it's breach. :P

[~Legend~]

Looks like a good idea.
This would include sub-domains ranging from ARPD to TCL, TeaM and the Media Center, where management may be undertaken by those who are not part of Argonath Administration (any of the community Admin Teams). It might be useful to have a place where they can communicate, mainly on management stuff.

To a degree all the sub-domains would have some things that are uniform (being under the Argonath RPG umbrella) and so aren't entirely independent, at least when it comes to hosting and administrating their sites/forums.

[SugarD]

Looks like a good idea.
This would include sub-domains ranging from ARPD to TCL, TeaM and the Media Center, where management may be undertaken by those who are not part of Argonath Administration (any of the community Admin Teams). It might be useful to have a place where they can communicate, mainly on management stuff.

To a degree all the sub-domains would have some things that are uniform (being under the Argonath RPG umbrella) and so aren't entirely independent, at least when it comes to hosting and administrating their sites/forums.

Well that's some of the general idea. The reason why I initially suggested this is because there is currently no place for any of us to communicate. When there is an attack, or an update released that others haven't noticed, we have no way to discuss it with one another to ensure our security stays top notch across the community. If one site is breached, all of the users on that are at risk, and thus all of the servers, websites, and forums can become at risk too.

[JDC]

I don't see why not. It's best to keep secure anything that is hosted on the same hardware as the Argonath website and server network.

[SugarD]

It's best to keep secure anything that is hosted on the same hardware as the Argonath website and server network.

Agreed.