Re: [tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-26 Thread Sam
In other web forums in which I am active there is an option to display all questions to which there have been no replies. I find this useful as I tend to respond to simpler questions but over quite a wide range of topics, rather than answering complex questions in more specialised fields. The

Re: [tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-26 Thread AG
On 25/10/10 16:22, Andy Brown wrote: On Mon Oct 25 2010 07:53:37 GMT-0700 (PDT) Sam wrote: Hi everyone, And hi Drew, thanks for adding LibreOfficeForum to the list. I could implement some of the features that todd rme mentioned if anyone would find it useful. Drupal is very flexible for

Re: [tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-26 Thread Sam
Sam, Not Harold but have a question, is there a way to mark spam? Need to nip it in the bud. Andy Very true. I've been manually deleting it so far, but we need a collaborative method. I'm not sure if I should use a heuristic spam filter, or allow all users to flag as spam and have it be

Re: [tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-26 Thread Andy Brown
On Tue Oct 26 2010 16:24:15 GMT-0700 (PDT) Sam wrote: Sam, Not Harold but have a question, is there a way to mark spam? Need to nip it in the bud. Andy Very true. I've been manually deleting it so far, but we need a collaborative method. I'm not sure if I should use a heuristic spam filter,

[tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-26 Thread Sam
Hello everyone, These message threads are getting very...thready. :-) Sorry, I'm not very handy with mailing lists. There have been some requests for features and some nice suggestions for LibreOfficeForum.org. So here's a brief summary of the recent changes: 1. The entire site theme is new.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-25 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy Todd There are a bunch of features that I think would be helpful. The ones I can think of right now: * As Marc pointed out, it has the guided posting system. This walks you through making a new post, to make sure the post ends up in the proper place and has the necessary

Re: [tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-25 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-25 01:54, todd rme a écrit : On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Drew Jensend...@baseanswers.com wrote: Thanks Drew Has anyone looked at the KDE forums? It might be a good layout for a software-specific forum. We also have a built-in system for handling feature requests directly

Re: [tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-25 Thread Sam
Hi everyone, And hi Drew, thanks for adding LibreOfficeForum to the list. I could implement some of the features that todd rme mentioned if anyone would find it useful. Drupal is very flexible for this sort of thing. Yesterday I changed the front page so that it direct users to the proper

Re: [tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-25 Thread Andy Brown
On Mon Oct 25 2010 07:53:37 GMT-0700 (PDT) Sam wrote: Hi everyone, And hi Drew, thanks for adding LibreOfficeForum to the list. I could implement some of the features that todd rme mentioned if anyone would find it useful. Drupal is very flexible for this sort of thing. Yesterday I changed

Re: [tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-25 Thread Andy Brown
On Mon Oct 25 2010 09:57:27 GMT-0700 (PDT) Sam wrote: One or two things I would like to see is the ability to tag a thread to watch for replies and bookmark. The first allows a user to notified of new replies with out having to comment directly. The second allow the user to mark a thread for

Re: [tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-25 Thread Drew Jensen
On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 11:57 -0500, Sam wrote: One or two things I would like to see is the ability to tag a thread to watch for replies and bookmark. The first allows a user to notified of new replies with out having to comment directly. The second allow the user to mark a thread for future

[tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-24 Thread Drew Jensen
HI, I'm tossing this out onto 3 lists - website, and discuss I was kind of hoping to get some interest on the users list specific to web forum ideas - I know that this has already started. Anyway - a quick pointer this this review page: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Drew/oo-forums

Re: [tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-24 Thread todd rme
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Drew Jensen d...@baseanswers.com wrote: HI, I'm tossing this out onto 3 lists - website, and discuss I was kind of hoping to get some interest on the users list specific to web forum ideas - I know that this has already started. Anyway - a quick pointer

Re: [tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-24 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-24 23:08, todd rme a écrit : On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Drew Jensend...@baseanswers.com wrote: HI, I'm tossing this out onto 3 lists - website, and discuss I was kind of hoping to get some interest on the users list specific to web forum ideas - I know that this has already

Re: [tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-24 Thread todd rme
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Drew Jensen d...@baseanswers.com wrote: Thanks Drew Has anyone looked at the KDE forums?  It might be a good layout for a software-specific forum.  We also have a built-in system for handling feature requests directly in the forum (the brainstorm