Editing BeWelcome FAQs - Check-up and Update (section)

====What is the "Forum" and how does it work?====
The Forum is a central place for discussions on BeWelcome. It is accessible from the top menu Explore > '''Forum'''.
This is the right place to find and start discussions which are relevant for the whole BeWelcome community (for example, ideas for improvement of the platform, discussions about procedures and practices on BeWelcome, announcement of big international hospitality events). 

The Forum offers different categories to post in: "General", "BW Citizen", "Technical Help", "Politics". There are also geographical categories available, for local information and discussions we recommend posting in the respective groups though. Apart from posting in the displayed categories you can label your post with different tags to help other members find your post.

If you start a new thread in the Forum, the default visibility of that post is "members only" (i.e. all BeWelcome members can see the post). You can also choose the visibility "world" (the post can be found by search engines throughout the internet) instead. If you post in an existing thread in the Forum, the default visibility of your post follows the thread visibilty (i.e. visibility of the first post in this thread). However, you can change the setting for your own posts individually. 

Please note that the [http://www.bewelcome.org/forums Forum overview] does not only contain discussions which are directly posted in the Forum but also discussion from groups you are a member of and even discussions from other groups if their visibility is not limited to group members only. If you do not care for general discussions and seeing posts from groups you are not a member of, you can click on "Show only posts to my groups". 


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:[[User:Sitatara|Sitatara]] ([[User talk:Sitatara|talk]]) 19:04, 25 March 2013 (CET) Completely new version to put on the website.
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