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Public area => The Pub => Features => Topic started by: Arantor on February 8th, 2013, 07:22 PM
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I came across Discourse recently; it's a forum built on Ruby on Rails, and I described it as the bastard lovechild of Vanilla and Google Wave. This is not a good thing.
But it does have some interesting ideas, most interestingly for me, it has 'Reply to New Topic'.
The idea is that you can hit the reply button, leaving a reference back to the original topic (e.g. as a quote or link) but essentially convert what would otherwise be an off-topic tangent into a new topic.
It's one method of keeping things on topic in what is essentially a flat topic model like we have.
Thoughts?
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This I like
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I stopped reading at "Google Wave". :P
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So. Anyway.
Reply to new topic (leaving a post behind the old topic, maybe)... or even quote to new topic. Thoughts?
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Even the locked topic? What happens if you hit the reply button, leaving a reference back to the original topic that are locked?
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I'd be inclined to disallow reply-to-new-topic in that situation. If you want to reply and make it a new topic, just make it a new topic. Otherwise it's encouraging people to continue discussions that were locked for a reason.
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Uhm, could be a nice idea.. problem is: if you have good users it's useful because they'd do a part of the moderation for you; but if you have noob users or not so good users it can result in a lot of new topics without much reasons. I'd suggest to set permissions to admin and mod by default (then can be added to other groups by the admin of course).