Actually forums are sometimes better for discussion than mailing lists. <br><br>In my opinion they usually need to have very active moderators, since otherwise the trolling might get out of hand. It is just a law of the internet. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/2/14 helen varley jamieson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:helen@creative-catalyst.com">helen@creative-catalyst.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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simple is good :)<br>
<br>
theoretically forums *should* work, but in my experience it usually
requires one or two people to do most of the posting & others
occasionally come in & out. <br>
<br>
what i don't like about forums is that you have to remember to go
back & look at them; being able to get an email alert when
someone has responded to a forum you're following is important,
otherwise people forget. also a good search function is essential.
mostly when i go to forums i'm looking for something specific &
i want to be able to find it quickly.<br>
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not sure if this helps, adam ... i'm still email-focussed :)<br>
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h : )<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 14/02/11 4:20 PM, tycho garen wrote:
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<pre>Hi,
I'm new, so take this with a grain of salt, but...
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 04:05:24PM +0100, adam hyde wrote:
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<pre>so...i was wondering if anyone has good ideas on forums to use - or some
kind of feedback mechanism for 'users'? We need to install one on
booki.cc since its getting quite a bit of usage but there is no
community as such yet like there is with fm...
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<pre>I'm not a big web forums kind of guy (see below), but my general
tendencies in this area are:
- [Vanilla Forums](<a href="http://vanillaforums.org/" target="_blank">http://vanillaforums.org/</a>): it's simple, it looks
good out of the box, and it doesn't over complicate things in the
way that some more popular software immediately invites you to
create lots of sub-forums which divide attention.
- [ikiwiki](<a href="http://ikiwiki.info" target="_blank">http://ikiwiki.info</a>) which has a page-inlining/blogging
feature set that you can use to power forum sites
(e.g. <a href="http://ikiwiki.info/forum/" target="_blank">http://ikiwiki.info/forum/</a>). It's super low-fi/low key, but in
that: really awesome.
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<pre>i would like to make it web based but i really dont like web forums...is
there a better way to do it? I had thought microblogging might work as i
saw some like this - they look better but i dont think they are really
that useful
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<pre>I think many people don't like forums, and though I think it's
probably true that we (all?) are bad model users, I might
recommend/suggest that some sort of web-based interface to something
that's email under the hood (e.g. nabble/gname,) might be more
ideal..
Cheers,
sam
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