Prop 302 - Proposal Forum with Auto Posting

Prop: 302
Name: Proposal Forum with Auto Posting
Category: web site
Subcategory: forum
Author: Baba Yamamoto
Prop Date: 2005-04-28

Feature Detail
Add a topic for any proposal added without a Forum URL at creation to a Proposal forum on the Second Life forums. Format title something like this Subject: "Prop ### - Title - [3 Letter Category Code]" Body: Proposal details and Link back to The Proposal vote page.

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alright

My votes are spent, but I think it's an excellent idea. The forum these auto-created threads land in should be Feature Suggestions, IMHO. That way, regular readers of this forum can note that the suggestion has been made before, with multiple links provided by Jeffrey and others to previous threads, and we can all summarize why everyone previously said it was a good idea or a bad one.

I did suggest in a hotline post that the top 20 or so proposals should be retro-fitted with links to discussion threads if they lacked them (only 3 of the top 20 proposals had such links). Jesse went through and did that, and even went to the trouble of finding existing threads to link to, but in the one case I was most concerned about (prop 279, all sims Mature), linked back to my hotline post, so people STILL don't have a place to discuss it. Oops. I think discussion threads really need to be mandatory for proposals. If they don't have one, yeah, create one automatically.

neko

Given it's worked so well with the Script Library (Nada rocks), this might be workable. Then again, this form of thread creation should be moved to a completely new forum due to the volume of spam it would cause.

Furthermore, thread creation should be cancelled out by the option to use an existing thread as the source.

The question becomes: Could this be automated? That's a tough one.

The existing thread was adressed in my proposal... I guess the wording could have been better

As to automation, It shouldn't be too hard I think...

Not with raw PHP, no. The problem is you're dealing with vBulletin here.

Oh, and it seems Jesse is doing some of this already.

I've seen Jesse's posts but I like my title format ;0 and new forum idea...


I don't really have experience with vBulletin, but the LL folks are smart cookies ;0

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