- Regular members information, complaints, and etiquette should appear
before moderator team information. Because more people will be regular and this is the info they will need first.
The Regular Membeers, Complaints and Etiquette sections is all that will appear in the forum. The rules about moderators won't be interesting to most people. But wherever this ends up, as a whole document, will be linked from the forum. But I don't mind switching it around - no problem.
But I still don't know where this document should be stored. Does anyone know, or is it up to me? Should there be a forum moderators team, and then this document could be the Charter?
- The forum etiquette is similar to the "Ask Smart Questions" pages
for the chat.
Oh, I see that has changed slightly since the last time I looked at it. Note that in the Community menu > Community Chat goes directly to the RocketChat rooms, and the Ask Smart Questions doc is not available. You can only see it by clicking Chat on IRC in the menu.
Anyway, are you suggesting to use it in the forum, or modify it for the forum?
- There isn't anything about posting attachments, or videos, either
moderating them (i.e. family friendly only) or if there would be limitations to posting content such as file formats (svg, png?, pdf?), amount of space quota (currently 10MB for normal users) or if certain forums will be moderated for different kinds of images/videos.
That's all covered in the CoC, and comes under Regular Member behavior. I could make a section for it, but it would be similar to the Regular Members and Complaints sections, simply referring to the CoC.
Or another option would be to put the entire text of the CoC within this document (instead of a link)?
Certain forums will not be moderated differently. Not unless you're suggesting we should have a "NSFW" section? Do you think there should be limitations on formats?
The quota is among several things that keep slipping my mind to ask about or bring up. It likely will need to be expanded for the forum. Sometimes people want to upload a 20 to 25 mb SVG file. And the people who do most of the answering of questions will need much more, as well. Maybe I should make an issue in GL for this discussion?
- Should animated gifs be encouraged for people explaining a problem?
They can be really useful on the developer side.
Oh geez! I already feel overwhelmed trying to get people to even post a screenshot of their problem much less share the SVG file! If there were some animated GIF program which non-tech-savvy users could use, I might suggest it. But so far, I haven't been able to find one. ShareX has been recommended a few times, but all I can do is open it. I can't figure out how to use it!
If there's a simple-to-use program, we could add it to the Etiquette section. Or maybe you want to add it to the GL Inbox bug form? That would seem like a more appropriate place for it, since few problems posted in forums ever become a bug report.
But this does give me the idea, that maybe we need to add one more etiquette point, about posting screenshots and SVG file.
Thanks for your comments, Martin!
brynn
-----Original Message----- From: doctormo@...155... Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2019 7:51 AM To: brynn ; Inkscape User Community Cc: Inkscape-Devel Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] rules and guidelines for new forum - first draft
Feedback:
* There are admins, because django itself has admins. But they are the website's admins, not specific to the forum. (so inherited admins)
* Regular members information, complaints, and etiquette should appear before moderator team information. Because more people will be regular and this is the info they will need first.
* The forum etiquette is similar to the "Ask Smart Questions" pages for the chat.
* There isn't anything about posting attachments, or videos, either moderating them (i.e. family friendly only) or if there would be limitations to posting content such as file formats (svg, png?, pdf?), amount of space quota (currently 10MB for normal users) or if certain forums will be moderated for different kinds of images/videos.
* Should animated gifs be encouraged for people explaining a problem? They can be really useful on the developer side.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Wed, 2019-03-13 at 23:07 -0600, brynn wrote:
Hi Friends, As it turned out, only me and a couple of other people were interested in drafting the rules and guidelines for the new forum. So we can get more eyes on it, and possibly more professional opinions about it, I'd like to ask the community to have a look at it.
I have no background in writing such documents, so it'spurely a layperson's whack at it. I feel quite confident about the contents, based on my years of experience in Inkscape forums. But the format of the document, and possibly some of the language might need some technical advice.
So any an all comments and suggestions about the format orlanguage are very welcome.
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/content/blob/master/articles/Forum%20Rul...
(I've left it locked to editing, so everyone sees the samedoc, for this first review. Then I'll unlock it afterwards.)
Thank you very much, brynn
PS - I'm also posting about this in the forums.
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