[hibernate-dev] Forum changes proposal

[Vlad Mihalcea]

I think we have the option.

Administration Control Panel -> Post Settings

Enable queued posts: Yes
Maximum post count for queued posts: 1

I have activated and I will test it with a new account.

Vlad

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org>
wrote:

> On 9 December 2015 at 07:02, Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.vlad at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> +1
> Is that possible with our current forum?
> I think I proposed something similar before but didn't find such an option.
>
> > 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.
>
> That's crucial. We can't possibly find the bandwidth to help all the
> users ourselves if they don't help each other too.
>
> > 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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