On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: >> Rob Weir wrote: >>> >>> This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I >>> noticed that when we do a blog post we get a lot of unrelated >>> questions, some of them quite good. So I'm thinking -- there must be >>> a lot of good questions out there. They could range from "How do >>> I..." to 'Why did you..." to "What if you did...", etc. >>> So the proposal is to use Google Moderator >> >> >> Excellent idea. I'd just be careful in telling people that for support they >> should go to http://forum.openoffice.org to define the kind of questions we >> want to have (so, for example, "How can I prepare a tri-fold brochure with >> OpenOffice?" is right; a bug report or enhancement request is not quite >> right, at least in general). >> > > Good point. Here is what we have now: > https://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=2033e8 > > Note that I added a reminder on where to go for support questions. > > Of course, this won't prevent support questions. Heck, we get support > questions on blog posts that have nothing to do with support. But I > assume no support question will get enough votes to go reach a "top > 10" position. And if one did make it through, then it would probably > be a real interesting one. > > In any case, I need some volunteers from the project to help me > moderate this. Moderation is mainly two tasks: 1) Responding to > items that are flagged by other users as "inappropriate". and 2) > Weeding out duplicate questions. (Google tries to identify duplicates > and when it does the duplicate question is put in the moderation queue > for us to allow or reject), > > Moderation should not be very time consuming, maybe 10 minutes/day . > If you want to help, let me know your Google ID (usually your Gmail > address). Send it to me off-list if you prefer. >
I could use 2 more moderator volunteers for this. Send your Google ID if you can help. -Rob > Regards, > > -Rob > > >> Regards, >> Andrea.
