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Friday, 12 March 2004
I've been frequenting the ASP.NET forums of late, great resource but not without it's problems. As a supposed 'communities expert' I thought I'd stick my oar in...as usual!
The poster rating system...hmm..I really don't like this one bit, being assigned a status (e.g., top 25 poster) solely based on the number of posts does nothing to encourage quality, rather it encourages swarf and provides no indication to users as to the probable 'quality' of posters answers
Moderation, I was recently stung with this one in the stuff I posted yesterday - the foreach debacle - essentially the bloke I was replying to was not moderated I - being one of the plebes - am, this leads to really odd conversations where I reply to a post meanwhile the other poster continues a line of thought, only for my posting to appear at some later date, totally disjointed!
Errors - especially tonight, this site is pretty error prone (think they're updating a server in the cluster or some such) - this is VERY bad for ASP.NET's image - one of the places where people evaluate a technology is in it's most visible apps - ASP.NET and it's forums are a biggy, scheduled downtime / some other mechanism would be far more preferable!
RSS feeds - nice, but supporting CommentAPI would rule, would let you follow an entire forum without having to access the site!
'User Scarabs' - hmm, these I guess are some attempt at a 'quality assurance' mark, but there's loads of them! ASPInsider (which no-one has a scooby about!), MVP (OK, that one is useful), moderator (why do I need to know this, what does this imply - except that they're able to ditch your reply), ASP.NET team member - this is a useful one!. So, what about trimming them down - maybe limiting them them to a star type system, indicating the user indicated quality of responses.
The sheer number of forums on the homepage - would be nice to be able to collapse these (ala web-parts), there's a ton I have no interest in but it's really easy for the eye to skip over ones that you are...
I don't expect any response to these, and I'm well aware that there's a Version 2.0 due any day - but I just had to get this stuff off my chest...
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