[wp-forums] self-linking rules?

[Eric Mann]

I agree on most points.
 
The forums aren't the best place to put large bodies of code or code-writing
tutorials.  You can use pastebins to store code blocks, but those are somewhat
transitory as well and don't work well when *describing* what the code you've
written does.  So while I'm all for encouraging that we post the full answer (if
it's all text) to the forum, there are times where a link out to an external
resource is more appropriate.
 
If I write a long tutorial on how to do X, I'll probably post it on my site.
 I'd link to my tutorial from the forum thread and, eventually, copy the
response into the Codex as well.  There are some answers that work well for
one-off tutorials on a blog that wouldn't belong in the Codex, though ...


On August 31, 2010 at 9:05 PM "Michael E. Hancock" <justmichaelh at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> From: "James Huff" <macmanx at gmail.com>
> > 2. Some folks have solved a popular problem (a fix for the Redirection
> > plugin, for example), and link to the solution on every possible topic.
> > Though this is bridging on spam, it does resolve the issue and answer the
> > question at hand.  This behavior should be tolerated.
>
>
> How about--if a volunteer links to a solution at their site, then they
> should be posting the complete solution into the forum as well.  Post both
> the full answer and the link.
>
> It should be our practice to encourage the full answer be in the forum
> thread so you don't have to depend on a link that later may not be
> accessible.
>
> If the question needs to be answered more than a couple times, then
> continued reference is better done by contributing the information to one of
> the Codex FAQ articles.    Two things are accomplished:  The information is
> more likely to be available at a later date because it is in Codex, and
> there's no question the person's motive is to contribute to the open source
> movement.
>
> MichaelH
>
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