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

Dan Tenenbaum dtenenba at fredhutch.org
Thu Oct 8 23:10:21 CEST 2015



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Lawrence" <lawrence.michael at gene.com>
> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
> Cc: "Ryan C. Thompson" <rct at thompsonclan.org>, bioc-devel at r-project.org
> Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2015 2:05:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Moderating "answers" into comments on other answers/comments on the support site?
> 
> 
> With regard to moderation of this, see the issue I reported a while
> ago: https://github.com/ialbert/biostar-central/issues/353 .
> 

According to that issue, the functionality asked for exists in version 3.0 of biostar, which we have not merged yet. 3.0 is a major update and merging it is not a trivial job. I hope we can begin at least testing this version internally after the upcoming BioC release.

Dan


> 
> 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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