[hibernate-dev] Forum changes proposal

[Vlad Mihalcea]

Nice!

It works guys. Go to the forum and check the post that I entered.
It has a question mark attached and if you log out you cannot see it.

This got to discourage the spammers, for sure.

Vlad

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.vlad at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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