----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Lawrence" <lawrence.mich...@gene.com> > To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtene...@fredhutch.org> > Cc: "Ryan C. Thompson" <r...@thompsonclan.org>, bioc-devel@r-project.org > Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2015 2:05:51 PM > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Moderating "answers" into comments on other > answers/comments on the support site? > > > With regard to moderation of this, see the issue I reported a while > ago: https://github.com/ialbert/biostar-central/issues/353 . >
According to that issue, the functionality asked for exists in version 3.0 of biostar, which we have not merged yet. 3.0 is a major update and merging it is not a trivial job. I hope we can begin at least testing this version internally after the upcoming BioC release. Dan > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Dan Tenenbaum < > dtene...@fredhutch.org > wrote: > > > Hi Ryan, > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ryan C. Thompson" < r...@thompsonclan.org > > > To: bioc-devel@r-project.org > > Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2015 1:09:06 PM > > Subject: [Bioc-devel] Moderating "answers" into comments on other > > answers/comments on the support site? > > > > Hello, > > > > On support.bioconductor.org , we've seen a lot of instances of > > people > > using the answer box when they should be adding a comment on an > > existing > > answer. I don't necessarily blame uses, since the "Add your answer" > > text > > box is far more obvious than the "add comment" button on an > > existing > > answer. However, as far as I can tell, it's impossible to use the > > moderator tools to convert an answer into a comment on another > > answer > > or > > comment, so when I see this happen, I just have to leave it as is, > > since > > converting the answer to a comment on the question would just make > > things even more confusing and out-of-order. So, given that this is > > probably the most common moderation action that I would want to do, > > could this feature be added to the moderator tools? > > > > Also, I will note that this problem happens almost exclusively on > > whichever answer is listed last, i.e. the answer with the "add your > > answer" text box immediately below it in the position that one > > would > > look for a "reply" text box. For answers that are higher up, useres > > almost always find the "Add comment" button since they are not > > distracted by an existing text box. So I think we could greatly > > reduce > > instances of this issue by putting a much clearer visual separation > > between the last answer and the "add your answer box", and maybe > > doing > > like StackOverflow does and popping up an "are you sure you want to > > answer your own question" dialog when a user tries to write in the > > answer box for their own question. > > > > I've forwarded your email to the author of the software that the > support site is based on. Ideally he will want to add the features > and can do it. Otherwise we can look at doing it, but we prefer to > keep the drift between his version an our version to a minimum. > > > Thanks, > > > > -Ryan > > > > P.S. I hope bioc-devel is the right place to ask about how to do > > moderation on the support site. > > > > > It's ok. Some of you may be wondering where the moderator > functionality is and the answer is that moderation privileges are > only granted to a select few. > There are several FAQs about moderation at the bottom of > https://support.bioconductor.org/info/faq/ . > > Dan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > > _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
