Timeline for answer to Expanding Discussions: Let's talk about curation by Berthold
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| Nov 1, 2023 at 19:55 | comment | added | user400654 | I mean, it's no surprise that it'd be more palatable to drive content to discussions and not the other way around, ;) | |
| Nov 1, 2023 at 19:53 | comment | added | Berthold StaffMod | @DalijaPrasnikar I don't think we'd invest in post->question conversion at this point, it would be more like detecting when a post (before or at time of submission) matches a question from that user. In terms of conversions, the question->post conversion, as part of question closure, is what we'd likely explore sooner. | |
| Nov 1, 2023 at 11:19 | comment | added | Dalija Prasnikar Mod | Migrating the discussions to Q/A is not the best option. discussion that should be questions should just be deleted and poster notified why that happened. I have seen multiple discussion posts that were literally copy paste of previously asked questions by the OP. If we move such discussions we will just have more questions to close (as they are duplicates) and user will get closer to a question ban. | |
| Oct 19, 2023 at 16:28 | comment | added | V2Blast StaffMod | @starball: I'd assume the idea would be to make it easy to convert an initial discussion post to a question – it might not make sense in all cases to port it over exactly as-is, but (for instance) the system could make it possible to prefill the relevant fields in the Ask Question page, or something of that sort. That idea has more to do with folks misusing Discussions to ask questions that belong in Q&A; it's not about converting genuine back-and-forth discussions into questions and answers. | |
| Oct 2, 2023 at 19:47 | comment | added | Berthold StaffMod | @starball It's theoretical at this point, and we'd want to look at specific examples. For the purposes of the question, think about the post itself being migrated, not the replies. | |
| Sep 30, 2023 at 21:34 | comment | added | starball Mod | what does it even mean to "migrate" a discussion into a Q&A? They're not the same format. And I doubt you can just find some comments and copy and paste them verbatim into a good or even valid Q&A pair. | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 0:00 | comment | added | Joundill | Why do you expect curated discussions to have any more value than uncurated discussions? | |
| Sep 28, 2023 at 0:30 | comment | added | Berthold StaffMod | @ConspicuousCompiler Check out this excellent question and our answer | |
| Sep 27, 2023 at 23:44 | comment | added | Conspicuous Compiler | Your ability to be so upbeat given the tenor of the feedback is admirable. Still, as somebody who has been around for a while, I don't think I've seen an explanation for the problem Discussions is trying to solve that chat doesn't already serve? (Please forgive me if this has been endlessly rehashed, but the introductory post doesn't even seem to mention chat as near as I can tell.) | |
| Sep 27, 2023 at 18:45 | comment | added | Berthold StaffMod | @starball It will only sort the first-level replies. Nested replies will always show in chronological order. | |
| Sep 27, 2023 at 18:36 | comment | added | starball Mod | what exactly is "reply sorting" does it just sort between the first level of comments and leave the nested comments in order? Or is it for sorting the nested comments within each top-level comment? I can understand the first, but the second just seems like it'll be really weird for back-and-forth discussion. | |
| Sep 27, 2023 at 16:45 | history | answered | BertholdStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |