http://www.opposingviews.com/ or www.bleacherreport.com ^ I like the format and want to make a site for my gardening niche community, where people can sign up and have their own profile and post their own articles, but they don't go up till the pending approval is approved by me. I need to find a place that specializes in making these type of websites but for an affordable price or good deal.
Try dolphin or monox projects... They are kind of cms and social networking. will really suit your need. Both are free, paid versions is also available
You can choose free article scripts by article dashboard or articletrader's articleMS. You only need to make a custom web design for your installed script and you can do your desired things by that.
thank you for your reply, could you show me were to find these scripts? will it allow people to log on to their profile and post their own article without tampering with my dashboard? I want users to be able to have their own profile but only I can approve articles, so it goes on pending till I approve them.
You can do all your desired things with article dashboard and Article MS. Download them from: http://adinstall.jdapublishing.com/article-management-help.php and http://www.articlems.com/download/
Thanks, Are these safe to use and will they tamper with the google news site map I have installed? Also are they safe that the script will not steal money from my ads? I had some plugins for wordpress and they would try and take money from my ad by placing their own without my knowledge. so is this a legit plug in.