Re: Important threads

2004-03-29 Thread Michael Dinowitz
prevent fraud > and such. > > DRE > > -Original Message- > From: Jim Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 10:07 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Important threads > > > Actually, since some people's description of a problem

RE: Important threads

2004-03-29 Thread Andre Turrettini
be prety cool.  Would be interesting to come up with ways to prevent fraud and such.   DRE -Original Message- From: Jim Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 10:07 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Important threads Actually, since some people's descripti

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2004-03-26 Thread Jim Davis
ld probably do the job very well. Anyway, that's my opinion. I figure it'll take a man of your caliber, what, 3 or four hours to build that.  ;^) Jim Davis   _   From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 11:43 AM To: CF-Community Subject: I

RE: Important threads

2004-03-26 Thread Dan Phillips
Maybe a Wish list/bug report section as well. Should make an easy reference if someone is trying to find out about a feature or error. -Original Message- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 2:03 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Important threads

Re: Important threads

2004-03-26 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I'm going to have to copy some of those. Well placed. :) > The CSS list I'm on has an accompanying wiki. They also have clearly posted > ground rules. > http://www.css-discuss.org/policies.html > > -Kevin > > > > > > > On this list there are threads that are important in the realm of CF or > > gen

Re: Important threads

2004-03-26 Thread Michael Dinowitz
atest 'important' threads as a batch. Make writing FAQs a whole lot easier. > Right. Think of how many times "I forgot my CF admin password..what do I > do?" gets asked. > > -Original Message- > From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Se

Re: Important threads

2004-03-26 Thread Kevin Graeme
The CSS list I'm on has an accompanying wiki. They also have clearly posted ground rules. http://www.css-discuss.org/policies.html -Kevin > On this list there are threads that are important in the realm of CF or > general. On the tech lists, the importance is based on the simple question > of u

RE: Important threads

2004-03-26 Thread Dan Phillips
Right. Think of how many times "I forgot my CF admin password..what do I do?" gets asked. -Original Message- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 1:49 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Important threads On this list there are thread

Re: Important threads

2004-03-26 Thread Michael Dinowitz
On this list there are threads that are important in the realm of CF or general. On the tech lists, the importance is based on the simple question of usefulness. If it's a simple question but one that everyone asks, then its important. > I'm not sure that any thread is really more important than a

Re: Important threads

2004-03-26 Thread Guy McDowell
I'm not sure that any thread is really more important than another on this particular list. Maybe on this list have it go by popularity, then recency? Just a thought. With the more technical forums, again how do you determine importance. I've asked some comparatively dumb-a$$ questions, but to me

Re: Important threads

2004-03-26 Thread Jim Campbell
Actually, since some people's description of a problem might be a little different (although, how many ways you can say "Hey, did anyone hear about Microsoft buying Macromedia?") - that "Recently Answered" would be most useful if it had a link to the discussion as well. - Jim Ben Doom wrote:

Re: Important threads

2004-03-26 Thread Michael Dinowitz
> I think I would like the democracy of everybody being able to vote on the importance of a thread, but maybe some voters' opinions have more weight then others. This is why I'm leaning towards the volunteer model for thread information. > Something I've always felt should be on lists like this is

RE: Important threads

2004-03-26 Thread Dan Phillips
nt: Friday, March 26, 2004 12:25 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Important threads Trollbait would be limited to this list while a previously answered link would be useful in general. I think that means we need some volunteers to rate the posts and list previous answers and the like. > &q

Re: Important threads

2004-03-26 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Trollbait would be limited to this list while a previously answered link would be useful in general. I think that means we need some volunteers to rate the posts and list previous answers and the like. > "Trollbait" and "Learn to Google" > > :-) > > Seriously, a "recently answered, check archives"

RE: Important threads

2004-03-26 Thread Ian Skinner
I think I would like the democracy of everybody being able to vote on the importance of a thread, but maybe some voters' opinions have more weight then others. Something I've always felt should be on lists like this is the ability to actually move threads to more appropriate locations.  Is it to

Re: Important threads

2004-03-26 Thread Ben Doom
"Trollbait" and "Learn to Google" :-) Seriously, a "recently answered, check archives" kind of thing would probably be good as well. --BenD Michael Dinowitz wrote: > Now that I've got some (forced) free time, I'm going to do a few things: > 1. finish up all the things on the subscription UI >

Important threads

2004-03-26 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Now that I've got some (forced) free time, I'm going to do a few things: 1. finish up all the things on the subscription UI 2. Move all the lists into a central DB 3. clean up all the urls for a more unified and shorter look 4. Set up a way for people to set a thread as being important That last p