Re: [Trisquel-users] Forum Moderation Idea

[strypey]

This has been discussed before, and I'm aware that the people maintaining  
this website and its forums probably have more pressing things to do with  
their time (eg work on Trisquel 8 ;). However, for the record, I think it  
would be good to have at least three forum areas:
* Trisquel help: a place for people to seek help with installing and using  
Trisquel (eg GRUB problems), fixing common problems (eg replacing GEdit with  
a text editor that works properly like MousePad or Leafpad), and with using  
the default applications that come with any versions of Trisquel still being  
supported.
* Free apps/ services help: a place for people to seek help with installing  
and using free code applications and web services that are not part of  
Trisquel, but fit with its software freedom mission. Eg discussions about  
what to use instead of Skype, federated social media apps, freedom respecting  
email hosts etc.
* Community discussion: a place for any discussions relevant to the software  
freedom movement, that don't fit into either of the first two categories.  
Discussions about the pros and cons of other distros, free hardware designs  
and obtaining hardware built from them, business models that support software  
freedom etc etc.

[Trisquel-users] Forum Moderation Idea

[dhood]

Has there ever been any consideration to having topics within the forum  
rather than having the single stream of consciousness we currently have?  
Ubuntu's forums have topics like "Desktop Environments", "Security", or more  
philosophical-like topics. Obviously we wouldn't need as many as Ubuntu, but  
having a few key one's might make it easier for people to find what they are  
looking for as our search function is often lacking in finding older posts  
that may still be helpful.