[hibernate-dev] Forum changes proposal

[Vlad Mihalcea]

Hi,

I agree that a value of 1 is sufficient too. Once a user posted a
Hibernate-related question, there is no way he will want to spam the forum.

I also think we should keep the forum it's a way to reach the actual dev
team. On SO, you get answers for the community.
So both the forum and SO are important and we should blend them, rather
than pick one over the other.

Vlad

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Brett Meyer <brett at hibernate.org> wrote:

> On 12/08/2015 02:46 AM, Vlad Mihalcea wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was discussing with Steve on the HipChat page yesterday that we should
> > probably enable these forum options:
> > Enable queued posts:
> > Ability to put registered users posts to post approval if their post
> count
> > is lower than the specified value below. This setting has no effect on
> the
> > permission setting for post/topic approval. Maximum post count for queued
> > posts:
> > If queued posts is enabled, this is the post count the user need to reach
> > in order to post without post approval. If the users post count is below
> > this number, the post is stored in the queue automatically.This way we
> can
> > make sure spam won't reach the forum because we have to approve all posts
> > and active users can get their post approved immediately.
> +1 from me.  Although, I'd suggest setting that post count extremely
> low.  Even "1" is likely sufficient, considering the spammers always
> seem to open a new account and post a brand new topic.
> > We might want to suggest users to use StackOverflow because it's a very
> > active community there are we could focus on unanswered questions there
> > too. Maybe we can change the hibernate.org site to display the SO tag
> link
> > before our forum. This way we might redirect some posts to SO instead of
> > the forum. This can decrease the time to get a response, and many easy
> > questions would get answered by other SO users too.
> I'm on the fence on this one.
>
> On the one hand, SO is not a user forum.  Keep in mind the hibernate.org
> forums are for more than just issues and usage discussions.  We've had
> new feature discussions start there, general topics, etc.
>
> On the other hand, many issues/usage questions go unanswered -- they'd
> certainly get more eyes and activity on SO.
>
> Maybe the best approach is a hybrid, where we clearly lay out the
> intentions/strengths of each?
> > Vlad
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