Sent from my mobile device (so please excuse typos) On 13 May 2011, at 02:31, David Blevins <david.blev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For me tagging and voting and (i forgot) the marking the question answered > (thanks, Benson) are the parts I would love. > > I write some really good responses sometimes and even *I* have a hard time > finding some of my old responses in the list archive haystack. Right. I always ask users to provide a patch if they find an answer in the mailing list useful. Of course it rarely happens (even with devs). Keeping things simple, could we provide a feature in the CMS that simply copies a mail from our archives (with backlinks) into the CMS system for the appropriate project? A link to this could also be provided in the footer of each mail (only works for committers). In the CMS we could have some magic system to build an index. I appreciate this has now moved away from stack overflow (I changed the subject) but for any Perl hackers looking for something useful to do on a weekend I would certainly use such a feature. This could grow to fancy tagging, tracking and more. But I believe thus is a reasonably simple thin to do that would provide immediate benefits. Ross > > And to avoid the "tag names can be spam" issue having so that only committers > can introduce new tags would be fine for me. It could be a file in svn or > something else equally lame but functional. > > > -David > > On May 12, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > >> There is another factor that comes into play. QA sites like SO also blend >> in wiki and trust mechanisms. Thus, highly rated users can and do rewrite >> questions to be more answerable/understandable. They can also rewrite >> answers if necessary. >> >> Without automated karma, the moderation function has to be granted manually >> which is a process that doesn't scale as easily and is subject to attack by >> cabals. That way lies wikipedia's dictatorship of the editor proletariat >> and associated drop in user participation. That is fine for a largely >> static knowledge base, but SO addresses much more dynamic topics in a way >> that engages the readership much more strongly. Moreover, the feedback >> cycle essentially guarantees that the moderators reflect the interests of >> the voting public. >> >> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 5:47 PM, David Blevins >> <david.blev...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Another thought. Sometimes I wonder how hard it would be to just allow >>> tagging and voting on top of a plain mailing list emails. A simple DB with >>> the messageId as the key for tags and vote count then a slightly fancier >>> archive view than we have now. And hey, markdown happens to look nice as >>> plain email. I've actually been indenting code snippets for years. >>> >>> I admit I like getting SO points and badges but they do not factor in at >>> all when looking for the right answer. >>> >
