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Permanent Discussion Boards
By Eloquence , Section Wishlist [] Posted on Wed Dec 20, 2000 at 12:00:00 PM PST

In addition to sections and topics, I would like to see something else implemented in Scoop, discussion boards. These would differ from stories in several ways: No story, but a description of the board instead Automatic comment paging, with 100 threads per page Defaults: nested, sort by date - independently set from story defaults

The site admin could create boards in the same way he creates topics or sections, with another textarea for describing the board's content.
Reasons:
Stories expire, boards don't. They would be permanent places for meta discussion, flaming, technical arguments etc. On iA, for example, I would like to have a permanent technical discussion board and a permanent meta board.
Possible workaround:
Create some hidden SID and link it in the navigation bar.
Disadvantages:
Options cannot be set independently of story options and boards become unusable as number of comments increases.

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· Yep, I want my meta board 100%

· No, it can be done with existing means 0%

· No, nobody needs it 0%

· Wooooooop! 0%

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Permanent Discussion Boards | 4 comments (4 topical, 0 hidden)

kind of like (none / 0) (#1)
by Defect on Wed Dec 20, 2000 at 02:01:32 PM PST

Troll Talk?

But for something that will actually benefit the scoop community? ;)

something like this be attached to the story moderation queue would be handy. That way it's only open to registered users and it'd be a handy place to spout off one liners, get questions answered or such. And also, maybe only make the comments in such a place be rate-able only by trusted users on a black/white scale. (either 0 or no rating, to prevent spam but not discourage users from posting for fear of <fanfare>The Almighty Low Rating</fanfare>)

Thanks for the link by Eloquence, 12/20/2000 03:03:10 PM PST (none / 0)
sections by Refrag, 01/18/2001 10:58:16 AM PST (none / 0)

can already been done, sort of (none / 0) (#3)
by enterfornone on Thu Dec 21, 2000 at 07:58:52 AM PST

There are hidden sids, as well you cn use diaries to make a permanent board. What I think would be useful is if these things can be hotlisted and users can share their hotlists around.

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