[Bioc-devel] Moderating "answers" into comments on other answers/comments on the support site?

[Michael Lawrence]

With regard to moderation of this, see the issue I reported a while ago:
https://github.com/ialbert/biostar-central/issues/353.

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
wrote:

> Hi Ryan,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ryan C. Thompson" <rct at thompsonclan.org>
> > To: bioc-devel at r-project.org
> > Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2015 1:09:06 PM
> > Subject: [Bioc-devel] Moderating "answers" into comments on other
> answers/comments on the support site?
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > On support.bioconductor.org, we've seen a lot of instances of people
> > using the answer box when they should be adding a comment on an
> > existing
> > answer. I don't necessarily blame uses, since the "Add your answer"
> > text
> > box is far more obvious than the "add comment" button on an existing
> > answer. However, as far as I can tell, it's impossible to use the
> > moderator tools to convert an answer into a comment on another answer
> > or
> > comment, so when I see this happen, I just have to leave it as is,
> > since
> > converting the answer to a comment on the question would just make
> > things even more confusing and out-of-order. So, given that this is
> > probably the most common moderation action  that I would want to do,
> > could this feature be added to the moderator tools?
> >
> > Also, I will note that this problem happens almost exclusively on
> > whichever answer is listed last, i.e. the answer with the "add your
> > answer" text box immediately below it in the position that one would
> > look for a "reply" text box. For answers that are higher up, useres
> > almost always find the "Add comment" button since they are not
> > distracted by an existing text box. So I think we could greatly
> > reduce
> > instances of this issue by putting a much clearer visual separation
> > between the last answer and the "add your answer box", and maybe
> > doing
> > like StackOverflow does and popping up an "are you sure you want to
> > answer your own question" dialog when a user tries to write in the
> > answer box for their own question.
> >
>
> I've forwarded your email to the author of the software that the support
> site is based on. Ideally he will want to add the features and can do it.
> Otherwise we can look at doing it, but we prefer to keep the drift between
> his version an our version to a minimum.
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Ryan
> >
> > P.S. I hope bioc-devel is the right place to ask about how to do
> > moderation on the support site.
> >
>
>
> It's ok. Some of you may be wondering where the moderator functionality is
> and the answer is that moderation privileges are only granted to a select
> few.
> There are several FAQs about moderation at the bottom of
> https://support.bioconductor.org/info/faq/ .
>
> Dan
>
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