People sign on, are given a user name, and can post comments, questions, and interesting web pages.
The administrator of the Starting Fires community can choose either to moderate users input, or can leave it as an unmoderated community. Starting Fires is a series of PHP scripts that interface with a mySQL database server. It has configuration options such as who can view unmoderated user comments, and it gives an administrator the option to respond to user comments, then post them in a moderated section. Starting Fires is in an early development phase. Starting Fires design staff Starting Fires is an open source project.