[wp-forums] Changing things

[Handy]

As I enjoy no feedback, let me throw one more radical notion out there...

When a thread gets marked as Resolved, close it too.  If folks want to
dredge up golden-oldies, let 'em refer to it by link.   After 50 or more
posts the topic has often drifted all over hell and back.

Just a thought.

On 9/2/06, Handy <handy.solo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So is this a weird compromise?
>
> Stop showing a blend of all posts from all Forums on the main Support
> page.  Go back to a more "traditional" forum look.  A mixed blessing, but
> helps focus posts to Forums, right?  And helps focus volunteers into areas
> they want to be working with.
>
> Add/Expand Forum (Fora?) for the Style/Theme/Xhtml/CSS topics if so
> desired. (hey, can we nest Forums?).  Mods can move topics from forum to
> forum so that helps keep things organized.  And if I don't want to see
> CSS/XHTML questions, I just don't go into that forum.
>
>
>
> On 9/2/06, Podz <podz at tamba2.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > Handy wrote:
> >
> > >> I may be the only one thinking this, but since the forum software
> > dumps
> > > current threads to the main page I have to confess I hardly ever even
> > > notice
> > > what topic the post is in.  Ok, not hardly ever.  Never,  In fact, I
> > just
> > > went to look to see what the the topics currently are as I had no clue
> > > /blush
> > > And as long as there's that big ol' list on the main page and the
> > filter
> > > for
> > > unanswered threads, I don't really seeing that change.
> > I never liked tags but then I grew to like them .... I do like the
> > individual ones as I steer clear of the Themes forum. I prefer
> > Installation.
> >
> > > How about we dump "Requests and Feedback"?  Not like we have
> > developers
> > > lurking about in hopes of finding new features to code.   I'd dump
> > Beta
> > > too,
> > > personally.  At least until there's active beta testing going on.
> > I'd agree about Beta. The release schedule and testing has changed
> > enough - it's also quite new (though it was a resurrection)
> > Requests - my guess is we will always get them and it does house
> > relevant topics it seems?
> >
> > > I like the FAQ idea, but probably not per Topic as we run the risk of
> > being
> > > "fractured" or wrestling with duplication or categorization.  But
> > chasing
> > > down all the FAQs in the Codex and combining to one FAQ page could be
> > cool.
> > > Then we could then respond to posts with, "See the [[FAQ]], section X"
> > and
> > > save a lot of typing / retyping  ;-)
> > Can FAQ's get so big as to become daunting for a newbie?
> >
> > > I'd volunteer to work on something like that in a month or so when
> > paid
> > > work
> > > slows down.
> > Excellent - who else wants to join ?
> >
> > P.
> >
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