Multi user wordpress options

[DnEbook]

I was wondering if anyone can suggest a plugin or a setting to make a wordpress available for posting by all registered users ?/

In general settings i set users to 'contributers' and i also tried 'authors' but when i logged as a new user there is still options to post on the site ??

Got me stumped a little bit, all i can see when i click dashboard is perforated rectangle

Basically i want a site that people can join and make a post

I would be grateful for some ideas opinions


Many thanks in advance

Update:: i did figure out that users have to be Authors to just post when they logon, Contributers have to have their posts approved

I did add buddypress but have not activated it yet

Is anyone else running a 'auto post site'

 

[iowadawg]

I have given thought to such for ages.
But have never done so because most so called guest posters, authors, etc. will just spam out the blog.
I see that it is on some blogs set up so that authors can do it, but have to be approved first as trusted posters.
Does wp let you approve the authors first, or is it automatic that anyone that signs up as an author get to post right away?

Let me know what you find out that works for you.
I may try that on a blog.

 

[RazorNF]

Try looking at some of the plugins featured in this article

http://wpmu.org/8-wordpress-plugins-that-enable-posting-and-editing-from-the-front-end/

 

[DnEbook]

I got to thinking about this type of site after seeing studyguide/org sell on flippa for $40,000+

The thing was it is a site that many people visted and interacted with each other via questions and answers and it was earning income due to the sheer numbers, here's the thing it truly was a god ugly site that only had regular content going for it, that's what made me think that it is the interaction factor making this work and earning income for what was apparantly little work

The seller wrote that he paid his nephew $14 a hour once a week to delete and approve all the spam and so on ....... it got me to thinking the magic word here is 'interaction' and the build up of original content because of that, i have noticed a use can edit other peoples posts and i need to fix that

I wont mention the name of the site i am setting up yet , only because there are still a few bugs i am trying to work out via the standard admin panel

I had already uploaded 'buddypress' but not activated it and the other plugins supplied will be looked into ........many thanks , yes i still rep people .......when allowed to if not too fond

 

[iowadawg]

Just 40 grand?
And huffington post sold to aol for 3 figure million dollars (250million, 500million, somewhere in there).
And all it has been and still is, approved writers who got bumpkus for writing, and from what I gathered, got not a damn cent from huffington herself. And aol not paying them.

A lot of sites and blogs are nothing but user generated stuff and they are huge.

 

[DnEbook]

yes the original user content seems to be the answer to big numbers via visitors ......