[hibernate-dev] Forum changes proposal

[Emmanuel Bernard]

To complement some of the sentiment, SO is awesome to answer questions on the project. But not to get interactions with the users to get the right use case, exchange on potential bugs to later open JIRAs etc.

> On 08 Dec 2015, at 08:46, Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.vlad at gmail.com> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Vlad
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