Il giorno lun, 19/10/2015 alle 09.55 -0400, Paul W. Frields ha scritto: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 03:19:31PM -0400, Justin W. Flory wrote: > > On 10/16/2015 03:15 PM, Gabriele Trombini wrote: > > > Il giorno ven, 16/10/2015 alle 14.55 -0400, Paul W. Frields ha > > > scritto: > > > > How do folks feel about time-limiting open comments on > > > > articles? > > > > We often see comments coming in on old articles. We can't > > > > reasonably expect authors to monitor these forever. It seems > > > > to > > > > me like 30 days should be enough time to allow comments, > > > > considering the curve of hits we see on the articles. > > > > > > > > What do other folks think? > > > > > > good point, sometimes I'm really bored about seeing comments on > > > old > > > posts; but there are some evergeen post we should leave open (e.g > > > [1][2][3]) or open for a long time. > > > > > > IMO posts not related to the release or a specific version of > > > software > > > should be open for more than 30 days. > > How long? 90 days? 180? Forever? > And what would you, as a commenter, a reader, or an editor, expect to > happen with the comments left after a certain period? > > > > Is there a way (e.c. categories) to handle these terms? Are we > > > able to > > > distinguish amongst posts? Also, are we able to remind to the > > > author > > > his post is going to be closed, so he can ask to leave open if he > > > considers that its cycle is not ended? > > > > > > [1]http://fedoramagazine.org/make-github-pages-blog-with-pelican/ > > > [2]http://fedoramagazine.org/how_we_translate_fedora/ > > > [3]http://fedoramagazine.org/use-fpaste-share-problem-reports/ > > > > > > > I think having a category or some kind of tag to mark articles as > > time-sensitive is a good idea - I also think there are some > > articles that > > might be better for a longer commenting period and others that are > > useful > > only for a specific window of time (as mentioned with specific > > Fedora > > releases). I think this also depends on the author's activity with > > the > > magazine too. > > The built-in function in Wordpress is global. Either comments are > open, disabled on articles after a certain time period, or closed. > > I found a plugin that accomplishes what we want on an individual post > basis: https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-expirator/ > > We should probably test that elsewhere before trying on the site. > The > plugin has a pretty low uptake, although it looks simple enough. > > -- > I'm guessing about categorized articles: A) general (like mine a couple of years ago [1], "how do you Fedora" series[2] or groups related [3] and similar [4]-> no closing terms; B) events (Fudcon, Flock and so on) -> closed when new events happen (a year?); C) election, meetings and so on - manually(?) closed when things are over; D) Fedora/n: -> automatically closed every new release; E) Software, hardware, howtos and so on: -> manually(?) closed when updated or rewrote; This is very hard to handle; it needs almost an admin manual check, so I think we should determine deadlines for each category we would maintain. On different perspective, I expect to happen: - as commenter: fill in a comment, waiting for author reply and going on if we might discuss; guessing how long it can last it's really hard. But probably those kind of comments become obsoletes when points D) and E) above happen. - as reader: the same of as commenter, difference is small. In this case I'm only following the discussion amongst other people. - as editor: I'm expecting a lot of people send me thanks for the article and I'd be really glad to start a discussion and if it's a generic article, seeing other's point of view and sometimes change my opinion or change people's opinion. Either fedmag is a resource to browse, study, read, deepen and view as a Fedora living historic memory or make it a sort of feed reader just setting up a cold expiration date everywhere. That's what I think. Thanks Gabri [1] http://fedoramagazine.org/we-are-everywhere-you-need/ [2] http://fedoramagazine.org/major-hayden-how-do-you-fedora/ [3] http://fedoramagazine.org/about-fedora-infrastructure/ [4] http://fedoramagazine.org/join-fedora/ > -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List info or to change your subscription: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
