Hi all --
About two weeks back, Q & A included a large discussion about itself.
Many great ideas were tossed about, and I've tried to distill them down
into a discussable and useful list. Please append your thoughts, additions,
disagreements, and so on!
For addressing SPAM
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Ideas I'm fond of:
From: make it the players responsibility to consider the climate of Q&A --
develop a player-set code of conduct for participation
From: keep personal issues OUT
From: making sure to indicate when the questioner is satisfied with the answer
From: some acceptance that interactive discussions will cause spam
From: short fuse handling of problems
From: be careful when handling spin-off questions
Other Ideas:
From: have a token to hand around to the person who has the floor, return it to
the imm running the session when done (might be a bit too tight of
control)
From: Control who can speak or whose speech is seen via code. Possibly a
command to toggle the room between imm-only speech and everyone-speech, so
that the question gets an answer before player comment resumes, set the
room to suppress certain messages like board reading and getting items from
a bag, etc. (might be overkill, might be a lot of work)
Ideas about FOLLOWTHROUGH
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Ideas I'm fond of:
From: webified Q&A logs very desirable, so keep up that effort, but people want
them sooner. The workload is tremendous. Any alternatives here?
From: Code updates posted a bit sooner for more chance to review.
From: Handle as many issues right at the moment as possible
From: Keep track of what's "to be answered later"
Ideas about FORMAT (Alternate ways to pose questions & their handling)
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Ideas I'm fond of:
From: questions asked via the feedback channel could be discussed in the live
session
From: themed sessions, with theme pre-announced. Might do nominations for
topics that need a full session to cover.
From: ask the question or give the feedback you have, don't phrase a put-down
in the form of a question, like "Is this change supposed to be stupid?"
when the question is "Why did you change...".
Other ideas (convince me if you like these ideas!):
From: a post-only, no-append board for questions (would take code, not
necessarily a good fit)
From: pre-announced list of topics (often it's just what people who attend want
to know)
Ideas about AWARENESS
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-- people should know more about discussion, QandA/feedback channel, as
well as the Q&A sessions themselves
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