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Threads existing in multiple forums

De Selby

23:01 / 20.03.06

Disclaimer: I have no idea about how barbelith works technically, or how it stores threads.

Is there anyway we can have threads appear in multiple forums? I've no idea how hard this would be to implement with the current design, but obviously it would benefit the board greatly....

(I was thinking about this a while ago, but this thread re-ignited my curiosity.)

Spatula Clarke

23:03 / 20.03.06

I don't think it's a possibility. You've got the question of which forum's moderators would caretake it, for a start - there'll be some technical jiggery-pokery somewhere that interferes with that.

De Selby

23:04 / 20.03.06

My apologies if someone has already asked this before....

De Selby

23:06 / 20.03.06

bugger.

Wouldn't that just mean it would be moderated by the moderators of both forums?

Spatula Clarke

15:57 / 21.03.06

Who'd define when the thread had gone off course?

Char Aina

17:22 / 21.03.06

well, all the mods in whose forum it lay.
you'd have some threads to vote on with five peers, some with ten.

ONLY NICE THINGS

21:37 / 21.03.06

I'm afraid this has been a good idea mentioned before, I think - we just don't have the technical means to do it. Which is a shame, because there are topics which straddle areas, and having two parallel threads is often a less than ideal solution...

Spatula Clarke

23:03 / 21.03.06

well, all the mods in whose forum it lay.
you'd have some threads to vote on with five peers, some with ten.

I wasn't really asking that question from a purely technical standpoint - I'm wondering more how it'd be possible to define when a thread had gone off track when all the different fora on Barbelith have their own styles of posting and moderation. A thread that existed in, say, both Headshop and Comics at the same time would likely be rotted pretty quickly by Headshop standards, but not by Comics standards. You *couldn't* moderate that effectively.

De Selby

03:02 / 22.03.06

I'm afraid this has been a good idea mentioned before, I think - we just don't have the technical means to do it.

I don't want to badger, but why not? Is the system design quite rigid? I've been trying to find information about the overall design, but I'm drawing blanks here. Is there a reason (other than security) why this is so? Wouldn't "open plans" lead to better design with more input?

Who'd define when the thread had gone off course?

Yeah thats true, but I guess if a thread was straddling multiple forums you would have to moderate at the lowest common denominator.

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