Re: [FRIAM] Smart Forums

Arlo, As you may remember, I have been frustrated by a possibly related problem. I have thought or years that academic fora could be used for the development of publishable text. When I was teaching, I tried to move undergraduates down what I hoped was a slippery slope from arguing a poin

Re: [FRIAM] Smart Forums

I think a forum is a sub-optimal (i.e. terrible) means of delivering technical support. At best it might be a linked list (thread) of emails submitted by participants with a heavy dose of anecdotal evidence and occasional contributions and responses from the vendor. Searching a forum for a s

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: Smart Forums

Sounds like an economic incentive might be called for to correct the community structure. In the past, some non-technical support sites required that a questioner have previously answered questions before they were allowed to ask them. Alternately, the vendor could provide giveaways or benefit

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: Smart Forums

Nick, That sounds like a cool "big data" research project. There are solutions at the command-line level to some of your problem - scripts and lexical analyzers can extract the "meat" of the medium, but that just gives you a pile of random cuts of meat. Big data may be able to recognized di

Re: [FRIAM] Smart Forums

Good moderators make a huge difference .. sorta herding the cats. The Atom text editor has a discussion list http://discuss.atom.io/ .. that is well moderated although it is a bit noisy. For me it works well enough as a support site. -- Owen On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Robert J. Co

Re: [FRIAM] Smart Forums

I ran into a surprise re: support when changing to the Gulp task manager. Their only support, posted on their github page, is: Still got questions? Post on StackOverflow with a #gulp tag , or come chat with us in #gulpjs

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: Smart Forums

I think what Nick is talking about is not so much mining an existing forum but rather creating a forum whose policies and collective intentions are to build a document (white paper, publishable paper, etc.) collectively. I think Nick is frustrated that the existing tools for such fora are syn

[FRIAM] online markdown editors

Greetings, inlight of my computer doing a bluescreen of reboot fairly regularly i've taken to testing stackedit.io and ctrshift.net As a matter of something pro-or even amature found. But not reely, anecdotally it incourages a particular kind of focus know my computer will likely happly reboot. Y

Re: [FRIAM] online markdown editors

https://github.com/coolwanglu/vim.js/blob/master/README.md From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Gillian Densmore Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2014 4:35 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] online markdown editors Greetings, inlight of