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RE: Cleaning up Categorized Questions and Answers
by chromatic (Archbishop) on May 11, 2000 at 01:06 UTC
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A quest is a good idea. Here's what I think:
- Set up a place where we can suggest moving miscategorized nodes. There oughtn't be an XP bonus for posting there.
- Let registered posters each volunteer to take one or two questions. They'll arrange the answers into one comprehensive document, weed out the cruft, and polish things. Pending approval from a couple of other monks, replace the whole thing with the new writeup.
- Make Categorized Q&A read-only by normal monks. That'll prevent miscategorization in the future. I see these as mini-tutorials.
- Post a link to the Q&A section near the place where you can post a new SoPW question -- "Want a fast response? Did you check the perlfaq? How about Categorized Q&A?"
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RE: Cleaning up Categorized Questions and Answers
by btrott (Parson) on May 11, 2000 at 01:47 UTC
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I think a quest would be a good start, probably, to clean
up the existing stuff. But I think that, without some
changes sort of like chromatic suggested, it'll soon
revert to its current state: which is kind of a mess.
The purpose of Categorized Q&A right now is somewhat unclear.
I think that you (vroom) are quite clear on what you
want it to be--a localized FAQ that monks can add to--but
I don't think that's very clear to new posters. To them,
it probably seems like there are basically two areas where
they can ask questions: SOPW and Q&A. And that's confusing.
So I'd second chromatic's suggestion to make Q&A read-only.
If you want it to be an FAQ area, we can't have people
dropping non-FAQ's in there. My suggestion is this:
- Make the Q&A area read-only, per chromatic's suggestion.
- Let monks with a certain XP level (> 4 or 5?)
maintain/moderate the area.
- Since new posts won't be coming
it to the Q&A section, these maintainers will need to
actively add the FAQs to the Q&A section. They'll also need
to add answers, which can (should, if possible?) be drawn from and crosslinked-to
writeups around the site.
What do you think? This seems like it would provide a solid
FAQ area with good answers and still make good use of the
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RE: Cleaning up Categorized Questions and Answers
by ChuckularOne (Prior) on May 11, 2000 at 16:33 UTC
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To avoid addendums and clarifications posted as answers, (Yes I'm guiltly) if the question asker were able to update (or at least add text too (maybe force it to be a different color?)) a question. It would avoid the Clarification Answers and additional information posts.
Your Humble Servant,
-Chuck
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To avoid addendums and clarifications posted as answers, (Yes I'm guiltly) if the question asker were able to update (or at least add text too (maybe force it to be a different color?)) a question.
I was thinking about this topic (being able to edit questions etc.) and I think we possibly can't edit questions because they are moderated. If a question gets posted to the front page and is then edited, it could well include something offensive.
I would like to see these "top level" node (i.e. anything that starts a new discussion thread) being editable, perhaps it could be made a feature of higher level monks. If you need a certain number of XPs to be able to edit your own "top level" posts, then a user could abuse it at most once before having the privlidge revoked.
So, vroom is it because they get moderated?
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I guess the moderation thing makes sense.
The intent with the possibility of only addending,
and forcing that to be a different color,
was to avoid the invalidation of answers.
As for the offensivness thing.
I guess making it available to higher level users would probably eliminate most of that.
If you took a 300 XP hit for being obscene, scoundrels might think twice about it.
Then, of course you run into the whole censorship this.
But I feel, if it doesn't pass the moderation standards, it should get yanked.
Just my opinion.
-Chuck
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Well one of the reasons we decided to do it that way is because users could post a question... change it and then invalidate some of the advice already given. The moderation thing is a valid point too... although I would hope most of are grown up enough to avoid such childish nonsense.
vroom | Tim Vroom | vroom@cs.hope.edu
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RE: Cleaning up Categorized Questions and Answers
by Anonymous Monk on May 11, 2000 at 03:25 UTC
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I think the Seekers of Perl Wisdom page should be a
gateway to the Categorized Q&A.
Once a question had gone through the
Seekers of Perl Wisdom a monk with sufficient XP
could turn the thread into a Q & A entry. I see
Seekers of Perl Wisdom as
as the data-entry/open forum with the Categorized Q&A
being a moderated repository of questions that have gone
through the Seekers of Perl Wisdom. Having 2
separate but very similar forums to post questions
is confusing.
Maybe also put a "Category" option on new
Seekers of Perl Wisdom submissions that
would correlate to the categories in the Q&A and allow for
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I would second this idea - but perhaps there should be a
method by which we can recommend a question for the Q&A, to
be voted on with normal everyday votes. This will allow the
low-level monks ( like yours truly ) to have some input.
Mik
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The other possible solutions that we could do is to have a SOPW question "move" into CQA once it had gained enough positive votes.
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