[libreoffice-users] Re: Question&Answer system evaluation

Le 2011-11-15 08:59, Alexander Werner a écrit :
> Hi everyone,
>
> while discussing the possible platforms for an official user forum, the idea arose[1] to also evaluate 
> a Q&A forum, similar to the well-known stackoverflow[2].
> I've set up an instance of askbot to allow users to test such a forum and comment on this idea. You 
> can access it at http://osqa-test.libreoffice.org.
> Feel free to register an account (at the moment, local user accounts, Facebook, twitter and various 
> openid providers are supported) and test the installation.
> Comments, bug reports and improvement suggestions are very welcome, either by using the "give 
> feedback"[3] link at the bottom of each page or at the website list or, of course, in askbot itself[3].
> For a explanation how such Q&A platforms work, please see the faq[4] and my short explanation here:
> * Q&A forums don't provide room for general discussions, polls, rants etc. and are therefore more 
> targeted.
> * Users can select correct answers and vote for answers. Selected and most voted answers are shown 
> first, drastically improving clarity.
> * User activities such as answering questions or voting answers leads to karma. With more karma, 
> the rights of users grow until the user has full moderation rights. This allows to grow a self 
> sustaining community.
> * Answers can be edited collaboratively (so called "community wiki" posts)
>
> Of course, trying it out is worth a thousand words :)
>
> Cu,
> Alex
>
>
>
> [1]: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/msg06443.html
> [2]: http://stackoverflow.com/
> [3]: http://osqa-test.libreoffice.org/questions/ask/
> [4]: http://osqa-test.libreoffice.org/faq/

Hi Alex,

I also had a look and it just looks like a system where people looking 
for help would have to work too hard to figure out how to use it to look 
for help.

We should have a system that is familiar to users where they feel "right 
at home" and able to browse through the posts without problems. After 
all, this is the reason we are looking into a forum, otherwise, Nabble 
would be fine to keep as is. Users were complaining that Nabble was just 
not like a forum and they didn't feel comfortable using it.

Cheers,

Marc


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