On 9 December 2015 at 07:02, Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.v...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I agree that a value of 1 is sufficient too. Once a user posted a > Hibernate-related question, there is no way he will want to spam the forum.
+1 Is that possible with our current forum? I think I proposed something similar before but didn't find such an option. > I also think we should keep the forum it's a way to reach the actual dev > team. On SO, you get answers for the community. That's crucial. We can't possibly find the bandwidth to help all the users ourselves if they don't help each other too. > So both the forum and SO are important and we should blend them, rather > than pick one over the other. > > Vlad > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Brett Meyer <br...@hibernate.org> wrote: > >> On 12/08/2015 02:46 AM, Vlad Mihalcea wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I was discussing with Steve on the HipChat page yesterday that we should >> > probably enable these forum options: >> > Enable queued posts: >> > Ability to put registered users posts to post approval if their post >> count >> > is lower than the specified value below. This setting has no effect on >> the >> > permission setting for post/topic approval. Maximum post count for queued >> > posts: >> > If queued posts is enabled, this is the post count the user need to reach >> > in order to post without post approval. If the users post count is below >> > this number, the post is stored in the queue automatically.This way we >> can >> > make sure spam won't reach the forum because we have to approve all posts >> > and active users can get their post approved immediately. >> +1 from me. Although, I'd suggest setting that post count extremely >> low. Even "1" is likely sufficient, considering the spammers always >> seem to open a new account and post a brand new topic. >> > We might want to suggest users to use StackOverflow because it's a very >> > active community there are we could focus on unanswered questions there >> > too. Maybe we can change the hibernate.org site to display the SO tag >> link >> > before our forum. This way we might redirect some posts to SO instead of >> > the forum. This can decrease the time to get a response, and many easy >> > questions would get answered by other SO users too. >> I'm on the fence on this one. >> >> On the one hand, SO is not a user forum. Keep in mind the hibernate.org >> forums are for more than just issues and usage discussions. We've had >> new feature discussions start there, general topics, etc. >> >> On the other hand, many issues/usage questions go unanswered -- they'd >> certainly get more eyes and activity on SO. >> >> Maybe the best approach is a hybrid, where we clearly lay out the >> intentions/strengths of each? >> > Vlad >> > _______________________________________________ >> > hibernate-dev mailing list >> > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org >> > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> hibernate-dev mailing list >> hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev >> > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
