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Admin - Call for forum enhancement requests

David Lively
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All,

I have noticed a few posts that have made some suggestions about forum enhancements.

As we're migrating and enhancing the site, there may be an opportunity to enhance the forum, as well. Some of the suggestions I have seen are:

  • Report a post. (inappropriate or unrelated content, spam)
  • Edit posts. Keil administrators already have this capability, but as the forum isn't heavily moderated, it may be useful to give this capability to users for their own posts, and in the case of frequent/valued contributors, for other members' posts.
  • Logins. We haven't required logins or account verification in the past 15 years because it has never seemed to be necessary. However, editing posts will require some sort of authentication to keep trolls from editing at random.
  • Move from discussion thread to question/answer format. Some sites (such as stackoverflow.com) use this quite successfully. It encourages on-topic posts and I feel improves the value of the forum archive as a technical resource.
  • UI changes. Entering a message on a separate page from the thread in a 50 character wide text box is less than ideal.Real-time preview would also be nice.

  • If you have any opinions on these or other enhancements/modifications, please post here or email me directly at david.lively@arm.com.

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  • 0 in reply to ²erik malund

    >>Why on earth, do we not have enough posts 'written' in Stupid Monkey *** already?

    Maybe we could add an auto translate Stupid Monkey *** Translator.

    Instead of detecting tabs, or C code, it would convert

    "HI AFAIK I tryed testing my bored 4ever, it broke. Wut now? l8r"

    to:
    "Hello I type very poorly like I got hit on the head with a heavy object. I am having issues with an evaluation board. Any suggestions?"

    Do take David's suggestion and go to stackoverflow.com, get a feel of how it works. Click on the advertisements there.

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  • 0 in reply to ²erik malund

    >>Why on earth, do we not have enough posts 'written' in Stupid Monkey *** already?

    Maybe we could add an auto translate Stupid Monkey *** Translator.

    Instead of detecting tabs, or C code, it would convert

    "HI AFAIK I tryed testing my bored 4ever, it broke. Wut now? l8r"

    to:
    "Hello I type very poorly like I got hit on the head with a heavy object. I am having issues with an evaluation board. Any suggestions?"

    Do take David's suggestion and go to stackoverflow.com, get a feel of how it works. Click on the advertisements there.

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  • 0 in reply to Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood

    Maybe we could add an auto translate Stupid Monkey *** Translator.

    you do that

    asking for a lot (not just the above) in a forum that is provided for free is not reasonable.

    The forum as it is works. Yes, it could use some improvements, but keep the fact that you do not pay for it in sight. I do not know what is involved with the various suggestions above, but what i suggest to David is that he does the following: FIRST require registration, then SECOND set up a voting (3 votes per registered user) on the list of suggested improvements that are within an acceptable effort to implement.

    finally one suggestion:

    A few strangely named creatures hide behind their monniker and spew bile on a regular basis. require registration and the real name used.

    Erik