Comment Platform on the Blog
GP Mon 7 Apr 2014 10:57PMPublicSeen by 14Our blog comments are either :
- ... a constant warzone against spam;
- ... a desert;
- ... a spamland;
- ... a place to complain that a link is down.
Meanwhile, the forums fulfill the same purpose, yet we're also complaining that there is a lack of new activity. Should it be time to remove the comments and point to the forums?
Remove the blog's comments?
proposal by GP Closed Thu 10 Apr 2014 10:04PM
Yes: Comments have been disabled from all posts and pages. Old messages have been kept, at least for now.
If you agree : you want comments to be removed. Putting a message pointing to the forums and keeping the old comments will be decided later.
If you disagree : you want everything to stay as-is.
Results
| Results | Option | Votes | % of votes cast | % of eligible voters | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agree | 3 | 75 | 25 |  | |
| Abstain | 1 | 25 | 8 |  | |
| Disagree | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Block | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 8 | 67 |       |
4 of 12 votes cast (33% participation)
GP
Mon 7 Apr 2014 11:03PM
Nothing really of value has appeared in the comments lately. We're getting a lot of spam (the anti-spam detection system has blocked 11,112 messages so far) and we should focus on forum discussions.
Dark_Link_13_
Mon 7 Apr 2014 11:57PM
I do agree that there are never any comments anymore, but I do enjoy it when there are... so I'm fine either way! _^
VincentmrlTue 8 Apr 2014 12:11PM
No one ever used them since the blogger era of NP, they're totally useless imo
Byte2222Tue 8 Apr 2014 10:59PM
They're redundant and make more work for the staff. Do away with them
GPTue 8 Apr 2014 3:24AM
@seb1 In fact, we can switch the order of the last sentence: If someone asks a question, who will be there to answer? Most of the eyes are looking at the forums, not that the posts' comments.
Byte2222Tue 8 Apr 2014 11:01PM
Since we want to make the most use of the forums, would it be possible for a blogpost to automatically create a forum topic about the model (which we can then link to in the blogpost)? Could a program/script be written to do that? (who likes a challenge?)
GPTue 8 Apr 2014 11:37PM
@byte2222 I know the HTML and CSS markup languages, but I'm unable to program anything (and that seems like a moon shot, especially for what we need), sorry.
Remove old comments?
proposal by GP Closed Sun 13 Apr 2014 10:06PM
We will keep the old comments on the blog.
Yes : Old comments should be removed from the blog.
No : We should keep the old comments on the blog.
Results
| Results | Option | Votes | % of votes cast | % of eligible voters | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agree | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Abstain | 1 | 25 | 8 | ||
| Disagree | 3 | 75 | 25 | | |
| Block | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 8 | 67 | |
4 of 12 votes cast (33% participation)
Seb ·Tue 8 Apr 2014 12:39AM
If they're rarely used and don't add much to the blog, I don't see why they shouldn't be removed. If someone has a question, the forum is the best way to go.