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Admin - Call for forum enhancement requests

David Lively

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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    BB-code and images
    I wouldn't mind standard BB-code formatting - for example being able to inline an image. Allowing a limited space for logged in users to upload an image would improve the probability that the image will stay available instead of a link pointing out into the big void when someone wants to read the thread three years later.

    This of course requires a way to flag and/or edit the post, in case people uploads a copyrighted information.

    Threading
    Right now, people can post answers in the middle of a thread, creating a logical tree structure, but it isn't possible to view the data as a tree. This makes it almost impossible to keep track of new posts when they are made in the middle of the thread. Especially if you get a phone call, resulting in the "new" status to be cleared before you return to your reading.

    Either allow tree-like views, or place all new posts at the bottom, but showing a reference to the post number the post was a response to (just make sure that this post number is correct even if a post is erased - or have moderators not erase posts but clear their contents and flagged "content erased by moderator".

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    BB-code and images
    I wouldn't mind standard BB-code formatting - for example being able to inline an image. Allowing a limited space for logged in users to upload an image would improve the probability that the image will stay available instead of a link pointing out into the big void when someone wants to read the thread three years later.

    This of course requires a way to flag and/or edit the post, in case people uploads a copyrighted information.

    Threading
    Right now, people can post answers in the middle of a thread, creating a logical tree structure, but it isn't possible to view the data as a tree. This makes it almost impossible to keep track of new posts when they are made in the middle of the thread. Especially if you get a phone call, resulting in the "new" status to be cleared before you return to your reading.

    Either allow tree-like views, or place all new posts at the bottom, but showing a reference to the post number the post was a response to (just make sure that this post number is correct even if a post is erased - or have moderators not erase posts but clear their contents and flagged "content erased by moderator".

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