tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311521723696783296.post7329810246964961895..comments2023-11-28T02:49:11.530-08:00Comments on JTB@: Please give us feedback on the forum home page mock-upJT Batsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03545293131676989071noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311521723696783296.post-80926496934681467402007-12-26T07:43:00.000-08:002007-12-26T07:43:00.000-08:00Do you have any women's forum?Do you have any <A HREF="http://my.allwomenstalk.com/forum" REL="nofollow">women's forum</A>?helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14239864678308581260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311521723696783296.post-6169542097129740362007-09-17T09:00:00.000-07:002007-09-17T09:00:00.000-07:00Digg does a thing where, to prevent duplicate subm...Digg does a thing where, to prevent duplicate submissions, it invites you to make your submission as normal, but then before letting it through, it looks for duplicates, and asks if your story matches any of the dupes.<BR/><BR/>Have you thought about doing the same here? A single "Ask your question here" box which will first search for existing matches, and then present a page that says "Does one of these look like the answer to your question? If not, click here to submit it as a new question to the forum."<BR/><BR/>It simplifies the front page, and removes the reliance on users behaving the way we want them to by just pipelining them instead. For users who find their answer in the search results, we just look like a search field. For users who don't, we get a positivity win because when we couldn't find an answer, we gave them this great option to create a new discussion, and add their question to the DB.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02600349135159962899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311521723696783296.post-81602261842537652412007-09-12T21:47:00.000-07:002007-09-12T21:47:00.000-07:00john-- the actual "forum" pages that she created a...john-- the actual "forum" pages that she created are done-- we just had some rethinking about the homepage. The direction we were going wasn't working.JT Batsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03545293131676989071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311521723696783296.post-87749469227102076132007-09-12T20:43:00.000-07:002007-09-12T20:43:00.000-07:00Hey JT...what happened to the mockups that Rhonda ...Hey JT...what happened to the mockups that Rhonda was doing?jslaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07991890112724531629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311521723696783296.post-52409145474532096642007-09-12T17:31:00.000-07:002007-09-12T17:31:00.000-07:00i think that is very good feedback.the ask a quest...i think that is very good feedback.<BR/><BR/>the ask a question will definitely appear along side the search results.<BR/><BR/>also, we will be doing something similar to this: http://userstyles.org/newpost.html to get the pertinent information to answer people's questions.JT Batsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03545293131676989071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311521723696783296.post-89944172681140623072007-09-12T09:21:00.000-07:002007-09-12T09:21:00.000-07:00Maybe it's the lag of context, but I have no idea ...Maybe it's the lag of context, but I have no idea what "current forum" means here. Also, with "various below" it looks like there's a word missing.<BR/><BR/>I also agree with shaver's comments re the usefulness of structured questions.snakoAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09120922452429397582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311521723696783296.post-15127145616135514582007-09-12T02:44:00.000-07:002007-09-12T02:44:00.000-07:00(That was me, shaver, above -- honestly, who calls...(That was me, shaver, above -- honestly, who calls me "Mike"?)shaverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889971578086598835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311521723696783296.post-28416345082035024882007-09-12T02:43:00.000-07:002007-09-12T02:43:00.000-07:00Since people won't know if searching the forum wor...Since people won't know if searching the forum worked until after they've searched the forum, it seems like it'd be more useful to give them the "ask a question" option from the forum search results.<BR/><BR/>Also, providing structured input for different things like "what OS are you on?" and "does this happen every time?" in the ask-a-question section would likely give us more useful questions, and lead to more useful answers.shaverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889971578086598835noreply@blogger.com