Re: [vassalengine-devel] Vassal Forum
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From: Joel U. <uck...@no...> - 2007-09-30 15:24:46
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Thus spake "Ben Smith": > > > For > > > the forum to be useful and *encourage* discussion, it will need to look > some > > > thing like this. We need probably 8-12 areas: > > > > > > Vassal Engine > > > - General Discussion > > > - Bugs and Support > > > - Suggestions > > > > > > Modules > > > - General Discussion > > > - Bugs and Support > > > - Design > > > - Suggestions > > > - Opponents Wanted > > > > > > Vassal Engine Development <a few useful areas here for the dev team only > > > > > - General Discussion > > > - Bugs > > > - Suggestions > > > > > > > Do you think all of these would really be used? > > That's the way it's done on successful forums today Joel, and has been for ye > ars. If we just have an area called "Vassal Engine Discussion" with no sub a > reas; How am I going to single out every discussion about bugs, what about s > uggestions? I would need to do a text search for the word "bug" and assume t > hat every bug discussion actually includes that word. What if I was a user w > ho wanted to ignore bug discussion? I don't understand the resistance to hav > ing these divisions, it doesn't make sense to me, personally. > > regards > > Ben First, there's the technical difficulty of interfacing that many fora with mailing lists. Second, I'm worried about discussion fragmenting. There's a lot of value which comes from people who aren't directly interested in a thread seeing it and contributing something to it. I think this is one of the shortcomings of the Fedrora forums, e.g. It seems like many of the people who would have useful comments on a post never see it because they don't watch the forum it was posted in. -- J. |