On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Paul Newby wrote:
> Yeah, that looks good. But instead of Qn1/An1/An2/An3...,
> how about just Qn/An ; i.e., just a single article for a
> question and an answer. So instead of generating
> another unmerged response, anyone who has something
> to add to the answer to 'Qn' would edit the single 'An'
> field. A true, albeit crude, collaborative authoring
> environment. Some level of security would be needed
> for this, I suppose, to guard against vandalism.
OK, how's this: Everyone gets to add questions which are marked
unapproved (which is the default anyway) and are not displayed until
approved. Modified answers are stored as a reply articles and articles
that have such a reply article are locked for further editing until the
modified answer is approved and replaces the original.
Moderators would get a special interface listing non-approved
questions and pending answers allowing approval or deleting.
If we add a mail mechanism to notify the moderators (given that
we have enough moderators) this should allow for pretty snappy updates
and still guard against vandalism.
emile
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