[hibernate-dev] Forum changes proposal

[Sanne Grinovero]

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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