Hello All

As you know this issue is a very important one, the name of the forum is Baghdad College of Medicine Forums, built mainly for the students in the college and it would lose its meaning if it becomes public. So it was a kind of a rule that students of other colleges are not allowed in.

We have been into positions when other members have registered just to see the site, and it causes a conflict with this rule, I would like to see your opinions about this issue, and we'll do what the majority of you decide, it's about u after all.

The options I thought of are:

1- Abandon this rule totally! and let anyone join BCMF (frankly I don't like this)
2- Make the site visible to all, so guests can see the forum but they won't be able to post.
3- Don't let strangers in, the forum is just for the students of Baghdad College of Medicine.

and if you have another suggestion tell me about it plz.


Thanks for your care, please ensure that as many members as possible see and vote in this topic.

hi every1 ...

i think i made my point clear about this issue when i replied 2 Jihan's topic ...

this forum is 4 us 2 discuss our matters ... & if we wanna discuss them with others then we can make it by another ways other than the BCMF ...

so if u wanna discuss ur issues with ppl outside our college then u can make a new website 2 do this ! ... but do not do it in here ! ... it will b a mess !

thank u 4 understandin ...

take care ...

my opinion is not to make it visible to all . but they can't write anything . .
i guess it's our duty to make ppl know about what they could do to discuss their problems ..
this would give the other students the idea of how to make another version to help their problems .. don't you think so ..

the other opinion which i don't really with right now , is , to make the sign up thing related to you as admin. to approve or not .. , ya3ny to make the students or anyone wanna join talk about him / her self .. to you then you approve .. just like the yahoo groups !

thank you

Neo

that's my openion ...

well I guess whatever you do kady still if they wanna join they'd join and you'd never be able to know that they're not BCM students, right?
So I guess those who says that they are outsiders "if i may say" and still wanna join are accepted somehow ... well I really really dont know?!!!
lets see:
1- they'd always be able to register and participate without us knowing them ... that is if they wanted to!
2- those who admit it i think somehow deserves to join!
3- still and after all its BCMF and its ours only!
I really don't know ....
and about letting guests watch well kady then what? what a difference would that make? you know other forums do this inorder to let ppl explore their site (sort of advertisment to the site) so as they'd register! so I guess when you allow it well I guess it wont change a thing! they'd also be able to register! and I don't think they register to watch .. they register to participate, right?

i just got this idea...
you can make a field in the registration proccess in which the guest should tell wheather he is one of us or not* and then members whom are outsiders should be registered and only another new MAIN branch would be available to them while the other main branch would be for us only "BCMs " altogether with the other branch ... and topics of entertainment section I guess could have a link with that branch "or simply you can make shared topics!" that are copied to the other branch and participation are visible in both branches ...!
you can also start serious topics there ... we can tell ppl about it and they join and the site'd enlarge more and more! with us having our own private place on the net

* we could add a question here that only us could answer so that no cheating is possible it could be of multiple choices about 10 choices with two attempts are allowded for a single Ip and then the ip wont have access for 24 hours and the question should be changed from a while to another ... hard job kady I know but .... it'd be your job
hope i wasn't that long but its all for your baby kady

TAKE CARE my friends ...

Well Huge,

even if someone joins as stranger and hides, that's not the real thing coz it is after all a Baghdad COllege of Medicine, so the topics will always be related to our college and our field. It's not only social and people won't be able to hide always, besides the idea is not to gather people only, it's to bring benefit to them and our condition in our college.

I would suggest we put a section for medical students from outside colleges. Because to be visible for all kind of students would make it more social, and we also want to benefit our medical students.

This would help us discuss medical issues with colleges in our countries and share experiences also perhaps international colleges.

I wonder if that is possible.

Thanks for your concern.

hi
i am with the second option , i guess its more realisitic ..ty

well Nour why not it works with my idea .. this'd be a shared topic in the branch that they can see and participate in.
while in the same time we'd still have the main branch for our selves only so as we'd have the privacy we need in our branch still we can participate and share ideas and disscussions in the other branch.
Toooo selfish, right?

Hi friends
my opinion is 2 make it visible 2 everyone without letting them participate cozif we prvented others(as we think)they won't be prevented as we really donnu which member is in our beloved college & whom is not..but if we permitted them 2 c the forum ,they would nolonger need 2 rigester &cheat us 2 c what's inside..
am i right?

thanks 2 all

My openion is to restrict the forum only to the students of Baghdad medical college , because we r discussing many things related to our college ,as the studying problems ,and we almost know everyone here in the forum (except some people who refuse to tell us who r they !!! ) , and from the name of the forum , it is only for our college's students .....

But i am with Noor ,that if we make a section for international medical students or other students from other medical colleges here in Iraq or outside , but they have to introduce themselves first , i think it will b beneficial to share our ideas and thoughts with other medical students ....

Thank u Kadim

Hi Kadem & all,
1st of all am sorry 4 ol of non-medical students 'coz it's not a personal thing with them or that we r " shayfeen ro7na" but i read some topics in which we had problems b'coz of this thing...
anyway , i think the most appropriate thing is (2nd option) 'coz they can still enjoy the topics & see the replies & get the benefit
that's why i voted for no.2

Hi Kadem Emad,

Thanks for your message.

i think it will be nice to have other people outside BCM to join this forum but with
restricitons.

my suggestion is to reserve some section in the forum that are directly related to things
about college courses, student issues, college problems, etc.. to BCM students only and
make them PRIVATE, but this will require to make sure everyone who registers
in this forum to enter a pin number or an id number to validate that they are students
in the BCM. otherwise their registration will be refused for these sections.

allowing other secitons to be public, such as social issues, arts, general information
will be helpful since these issues can be discussed with other people from around the
world and it could benefit the students.

so how about dividing the website into TWO entry login/password sections ?
one with people from outside the BCM & the other with people inside the BCM ?

that is, each of these websites will have its own sections for BCM students and
the other website for general discussions for students or people outside the BCM.
as i mentioned, this will be a website that divides into TWO secitons with
login/password entry for both along with PIN number entry for the sections related
to college affairs for BCM students only.

what do you think ?

P.S - i am not a student here, i live outside Iraq, but i have freind in BCM and they
told me to look into this site because it has useful information.

Thank you,
bassam esa

hi again ...

as i said b4 ... if we need 2 discuss some issues with ppl from all around the world then we can do it by usin other websites or yahoo groups or even chat rooms ...

y r u suggestin 2 share this site with ppl outside our college ... does the BCMF have 2 gather other ppl ... does the BCMF have 2 b a collection of different kinds of ppl

4 me ... i think that is not the aim behind makin the BCMF ... it has restricted rules from the 1st day it was established ... & the main aim of the BCMF is : GATHERIN THE STUDENTS OF THE BAGHDAD COLLEGE OF MEDICINE ...

so if u wanna mix with other kind of ppl then try 2 find OTHER WAYS 2 do it ... which r so so so MANY ...

P.S. : 4 those who didnt notice Jihan's topic then click here : http://bcmf.4.forumer.com/index.php?showtopic=556

well bassam that's exactly my suggestion if you had read it

tina dear ... take it easy .. its not like this at all ... I think it wont hurt anyone to discuss topics with others in a seperated place than the bcmf! "still the bcmf is ours only".
the thing is that Im suggesting to enlarge the site and let others mix with us in that other place "sub-bcmf branch" ... and its juts an idea!

and everybody please understand that making the site visible to guests does not mean that this would prevent them from registering i guess it wont change a thing here as I think ppl register to participate not to watch ... ! thats why making the site visible to guests would only increase the number of outsiders that register in the site instead of redusing them!
I hope you got my idea ...

Thanks Ali Ghalib,

i agree with you, sorry i didn't read your message before
and Tina, i don't understand what is the problem 4 having others joining
the bcmf 4 general information discussions !

and as Ali suggested that some sections should be private not all.
i myself only read and write in general discussion topics and i really don't read
the stuff related with students courses or teaching..

but anyway, i got here through a friend of mine who is 5th year student in the BCMF.
her name is Yusra.

Thanks.
bassam esa