10
votes
Why do Internet forums tend to prohibit responding to inactive threads?
reddit is one specific case that operates a bit differently than most other forums. There, threads are ranked by "hotness, which takes into account votes on the post and the time it was posted. As a ...
- 201
7
votes
What are some uncommon, but useful, rules for public forums?
I've collected some rules from various discord servers I'm in. I hope this would be helpful to you:
Deciding your policy on external links
Most websites and servers have a policy to prevent ...
6
votes
Why do Internet forums tend to prohibit responding to inactive threads?
We know that StackExchange discourages extensive discussions. This is not the case in some forums.
Sometimes people don't even care too much about solving the problem itself, but only the new things ...
- 259
6
votes
Replacing Discourse and Slack with a single platform?
I have found the winning solution to be integrating the chat platform with the discussion platform using either the relevant plugin for the discussion for, e.g. the Discourse chat plugin or some of ...
- 162
6
votes
Replacing Discourse and Slack with a single platform?
Discord seems to be tracking Slack’s development most closely in terms of modern and friendly UI. It’s free, which seems important to you, and if you use a bot I think you’ll get most of what you’re ...
- 131
5
votes
Accepted
What is the effect of different users having different views of a thread?
I can think of a few consequences of this type of system.
Missing half the conversation
A comment can't always be nicely categorized. A user could make a stupid pun and provide a valuable answer in ...
- 6,900
5
votes
Accepted
I am looking for examples of online community growth
It is one of those questions which are incredibly hard to answer adequately due to the vast amount of unknown factors and - to some degree - the element of luck. You should ideally experience a ...
- 86
5
votes
Accepted
How can I introduce topic based subforums to my site without splitting up the traffic too much?
I don't get your key concern here - and I believe that there is a misconception. It doesn't matter how you will structure your site and subsites, traffic will remain as high as it is now, it could ...
- 3,755
4
votes
Replacing Discourse and Slack with a single platform?
As the developers prefer Slack, you should go for a chat oriented solution. A sweet spot between a forums and chats is Zulip.
It have two levels of organization (topics inside channels) what ...
- 141
2
votes
How can I introduce topic based subforums to my site without splitting up the traffic too much?
I don't think the method of splitting is your main issue. You can choose to either do it yourself or have the community split into different subgroups. In either case, though you still want the entire ...
- 6,900
2
votes
Accepted
How to promote and encourage differently-abled participants?
One approach is to find potentially interested online communities via Google, Reddit subreddit search and so on, but then instead of rightaway mentioning your channel -- which can be interpreted as ...
- 136
2
votes
Accepted
General Rules of Conduct
The specific disinformation of UTF-8 being fair since the scripts which are encoded in 3 bytes in UTF-8 being given too many code points (thus each codepoint carrying more information on an average) ...
- 36
2
votes
A good interface for parents in an elementary school: email, web, mobile, or something else?
Much as I personally prefer email, it has a number of issues for regular users.
An ad-hoc mailing list with all the recipients in the To: or Cc: header degrades very poorly. If somebody changes their ...
- 131
1
vote
Should access to an Online/Crowd-Sourced Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) site be fully open?
The post was closed down because its too political. Very sad.
Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA)
Your talking Politics in RIA and your only Goal.
Your First and only stated goal is to better educate ...
1
vote
General Rules of Conduct
No, a ban wasn't very just here in my opinion. Though, that may just be the moderation style of that particular forum. If you were endeavoring to create a code of conduct for a community you run, I ...
- 519
1
vote
How can I introduce topic based subforums to my site without splitting up the traffic too much?
I would first try to investigate if you really need sub-forums. If your traffic is light, and your members aren't complaining about offtopic threads in your forum, you may not need them.
But if you ...
- 151
1
vote
How can I introduce topic based subforums to my site without splitting up the traffic too much?
It's based on your Community. Both options are really great but they won't work in every community :/
Idea No. 1 is the "Allrounder" which is in every case a good idea. You can control it by yourself ...
- 299
1
vote
Astro Turfing to help jump start a community
When I started my first online community, a friend and I made a point of posting and responding to each other's posts until we got others to participate, as well. People do respond when they think ...
- 441
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible