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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 David Lively

    Another thing.
    Sometimes, people manages to post a comment to a old thread. Don't know if it was read-only before, but the thread gets to the top of the list in read-only mode with one fresh comment and impossible for other people to respond to. If read-only, no comment should have been added in the first place.

    This is also an interesting thread:
    http://www.keil.com/forum/docs/thread16629.asp
    Did show up as having a new comment today 01:06 and in total 3 responses.
    But when I open the thread, it has only two responses - both very old.

    Somehow, there seems to be a locking/update problem, where additions of posts and updates of the thread doesn't get atomically processed.

  • 0 in reply to edPer Westermark

    David Lively,

    I hope you realize that once you've updated the forum, you'll get a lot of suggestions (in the form of complaints) about what should and shouldn't be done.
    Personally, I'm fine with the forum the way it is, and welcome the suggestions above. I'm not fond of the "stackoverflow.com" Q & A style. I'll live with whatever Keil decides to implement.
    I just want you to realize that any major change and you'll get plenty of whiners and complainers suddenly providing 'suggestions' AFTER you've implemented a forum 'upgrade.'
    My comment on more colors was just that I thought it would be nice to have a few colors within the code. This way a code fragment can be [copied and] edited to show RED for warning/error and possibly GREEN for Keep/Good/Corrected code. And blue for 'optional' or whatever people decide to do for the various [few] colors provided.
    Obviously, people like Per and others are regular contributors and their words of wisdom should rate more than most (like me).

    --Cpt. Vince Foster
    2nd Cannon Place
    Fort Marcy Park, VA

  • 0 Arm Employee Badge in reply to Cpt. Vince

    All changes generate mixed feelings. The question/answer format is a personal preference and is probably too much of a departure from what's been working here for so long, but a lot of the other requests look reasonable and doable.

    Thanks for the input.

  • 0 in reply to David Lively

    A "Mark All Threads as 'Read'" button