Hi! On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, George Prowse wrote: > >> I'd like to propose some form of ability to post user comments > >> to GWN stories. I suppose a full blown CMS system would work, > >> but for the ease of time I'm suggesting that perhaps we open up > >> a GWN section on the forums and post the text of the GWN (or > >> perhaps each section) in a new thread each week and allow users > >> to write comments. I think opening up this venue of feedback > >> would let users more readily tell us what they're interested > >> in, and it would allow GWN contributors/editors/etc to see some > >> of the fruits of their labors. > >> > >> Any comments? > > > >Principally, I agree (though I'd also rather go with the blog > >approach as Patrick suggested). One point though: commenting only > >being possible after registration may cut down on the spam (both > >commercial and vandalism), > > You have to register for a forums as well (usually) and if it were > made part of Gentoo's forums then there would be no need for extra > moderators.
Okay, I put it a bit strangely. What I meant was that a blog does not need registration (if it has sufficient anti-spam measures). A forum usually does. > >but it also raises the bar for legitimate comments. > > Again, the thread system of forums allows for easier viewing of comments. Easier than a blog? I beg to differ. Does a forum have an RSS feed I can subscribe to? A blog puts more emphasis on the order of articles (in time) than a forum does. So I'm leaning towards a blog. > >I'm not saying there should be no hurdle, it's just that it > >should be thought of/decided beforehand. > > Personally I think discussions in a wiki get more difficult the longer > the discussion carries on, also i think the ability to get an email > after comments have been made on a thread is a *big* advantage over > the wiki style. Oh, I wasn't suggesting using a wiki. One probably could make a wiki work the way needed here, but I think using a blog (or forums) is far easier. > It would be easier to clean up and cut down on vandalism because GWN > contributors and authors could have an ability to moderate said forum > and delete threads once they have been used or discarded. Well, moderators on a blog could do that too: most blogs allow comments to be closed for articles older than a set number of months/weeks. Regards, Tobias -- You don't need eyes to see, you need vision. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
