On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 03:08 +0100, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > What would you want to extend it with?
Some features to consider - just ramblings at the moment.. ==== hey hey, not so fast ===== For new registrants: Meter post frequency - for instance, minimum of 5 minutes between posts _until_ 3 posts or 30 days after registration, whichever comes first (just an example, so please don't start discussing specifics on exact counts/periods here) - this will kill most serious spamming attacks in the least intrusive way possible. Meter search frequency - defense against the poor man's DOS attack - usually tied to new registrations again. ======= You use what ========== Custom user profile fields - i.e. Version of the application and OS used - nice to be able to flag these fields as required during registration time - custom fields display in public profile on posts -- cuts way down on the 'what are you using because you didn't tell me', pre-question, question exchange, quite a bit. ===== do the bump or disco lives ===== [a bump means to push an existing question that has received zero responses back to the top of the list, as if it where a new question] bump delay, this is the minimum period of time that must pass before the original poster (or moderator) can manually bump the topic - haven't seen the acp for JForum so don't know if this has it or not. Ability to set auto bump and length of time before this happens - really nice if the auto-bump can be forum specific - cause you really don't care in a general chit chat list, but have a fairly long wait period for say a coding list and a short period for an install help list. [I'm used to seeing systems that limit the number of bumps for any single question to two] ===== a rose by any other name === karma is called ranking in some systems - though it can also be handled with custom groups - it is considered important by most people that use web forums often - but again almost all forums handle it in one way or another. What ever system used it is best if it is not tied only to post count, - all forums (web or email) tend to have a few energetic individuals, heavy on posts, light on useful content - think about the effort that went into the karma rules on the osqa test platform. ==== smile for the camera ===== avatars, well, I don't care that much but I guarantee you others do. gravatar - please no - but that is my personal preference Smilies - no idea why this matters so much to some, but it does - so adding custom ones is a nice, very nice, feature. ==== exit stage left ===== anyway - a few quick thoughts of the top of the head I've sent some emails out to people whose opinion I value on this subject...not much feedback yet.. So - just to let you know, tomorrow I will be putting forward the idea that you should go ahead and launch the AskBot site - but not a BBS style forum at this point - my suggestion, make the decision 1 week from today. //drew -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
