[wp-forums] Changing things

[Les Bessant]

Hey!! Some of us have to sleep, you know!

Yes, that might avoid people dragging up an old one and saying "how can this
be resolved, I've still got a similar problem". I have to avoid answering
those, it's too much like the day job...

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Les Bessant les at lcb.me.uk
Losing it[1] - http://lcb.me.uk/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-forums-bounces at lists.automattic.com 
> [mailto:wp-forums-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Handy
> Sent: 03 September 2006 04:50
> To: wp-forums at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-forums] Changing things
> 
> 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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