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Yet another cross posting solution. I think this one is by far the best yet, but then again im bias. Cross Posting is something we have always tried to discourage here, and AFAIK most forums do the same. You would have thought that the general populus would have cottoned on by now but they have not. However, I think there is good reason. Say I want to ask a question about a topic such as Threading. I write code in C# and I want all the people in the C# forum to provide me an answer but I dont want to miss out on people who only really look in the .NET Framework forum. There has always been the rule of "Pick the best forum, and post it there", but this misses the poiint slightly. What im getting at is there is alot of cross-over in our forums (think ASP.NET written in C#, LINQ from a C# app etc etc) So here's my proposed solution. When you post a new message you should, as normal, pick the most relevant forum to post your message. however before posting you should be able to pick a maximum of 2 other forums that your question should be linked from. Your message gets displayed in your "Primary forum" and in your selected "Secondary forum(s)" a message is posted which clearly indicates its a cross-posted message. So basically if I post in C# a message shows there as usual: "How do I create a widget using dowhickies?" and in the secondary forum(s): "From C#: How do I create a widget using dowhickies?" To make sure we dont get replies posted in many forums all "reply" links lead to the primary forum where the message was posted. So all replies to my thread go into the forum I initially chose as the most relevant one.
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Yet another cross posting solution. I think this one is by far the best yet, but then again im bias. Cross Posting is something we have always tried to discourage here, and AFAIK most forums do the same. You would have thought that the general populus would have cottoned on by now but they have not. However, I think there is good reason. Say I want to ask a question about a topic such as Threading. I write code in C# and I want all the people in the C# forum to provide me an answer but I dont want to miss out on people who only really look in the .NET Framework forum. There has always been the rule of "Pick the best forum, and post it there", but this misses the poiint slightly. What im getting at is there is alot of cross-over in our forums (think ASP.NET written in C#, LINQ from a C# app etc etc) So here's my proposed solution. When you post a new message you should, as normal, pick the most relevant forum to post your message. however before posting you should be able to pick a maximum of 2 other forums that your question should be linked from. Your message gets displayed in your "Primary forum" and in your selected "Secondary forum(s)" a message is posted which clearly indicates its a cross-posted message. So basically if I post in C# a message shows there as usual: "How do I create a widget using dowhickies?" and in the secondary forum(s): "From C#: How do I create a widget using dowhickies?" To make sure we dont get replies posted in many forums all "reply" links lead to the primary forum where the message was posted. So all replies to my thread go into the forum I initially chose as the most relevant one.
Sounds like a really good and usable solution. 5 from me. Also there could be some ways to modify the UI when reading posts, for example using grouping (group by original forum), filtering (show linked messages, show linked messages from C#...) etc
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Yet another cross posting solution. I think this one is by far the best yet, but then again im bias. Cross Posting is something we have always tried to discourage here, and AFAIK most forums do the same. You would have thought that the general populus would have cottoned on by now but they have not. However, I think there is good reason. Say I want to ask a question about a topic such as Threading. I write code in C# and I want all the people in the C# forum to provide me an answer but I dont want to miss out on people who only really look in the .NET Framework forum. There has always been the rule of "Pick the best forum, and post it there", but this misses the poiint slightly. What im getting at is there is alot of cross-over in our forums (think ASP.NET written in C#, LINQ from a C# app etc etc) So here's my proposed solution. When you post a new message you should, as normal, pick the most relevant forum to post your message. however before posting you should be able to pick a maximum of 2 other forums that your question should be linked from. Your message gets displayed in your "Primary forum" and in your selected "Secondary forum(s)" a message is posted which clearly indicates its a cross-posted message. So basically if I post in C# a message shows there as usual: "How do I create a widget using dowhickies?" and in the secondary forum(s): "From C#: How do I create a widget using dowhickies?" To make sure we dont get replies posted in many forums all "reply" links lead to the primary forum where the message was posted. So all replies to my thread go into the forum I initially chose as the most relevant one.
I second the idea.
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Yet another cross posting solution. I think this one is by far the best yet, but then again im bias. Cross Posting is something we have always tried to discourage here, and AFAIK most forums do the same. You would have thought that the general populus would have cottoned on by now but they have not. However, I think there is good reason. Say I want to ask a question about a topic such as Threading. I write code in C# and I want all the people in the C# forum to provide me an answer but I dont want to miss out on people who only really look in the .NET Framework forum. There has always been the rule of "Pick the best forum, and post it there", but this misses the poiint slightly. What im getting at is there is alot of cross-over in our forums (think ASP.NET written in C#, LINQ from a C# app etc etc) So here's my proposed solution. When you post a new message you should, as normal, pick the most relevant forum to post your message. however before posting you should be able to pick a maximum of 2 other forums that your question should be linked from. Your message gets displayed in your "Primary forum" and in your selected "Secondary forum(s)" a message is posted which clearly indicates its a cross-posted message. So basically if I post in C# a message shows there as usual: "How do I create a widget using dowhickies?" and in the secondary forum(s): "From C#: How do I create a widget using dowhickies?" To make sure we dont get replies posted in many forums all "reply" links lead to the primary forum where the message was posted. So all replies to my thread go into the forum I initially chose as the most relevant one.
J4amieC wrote:
So here's my proposed solution. When you post a new message you should, as normal, pick the most relevant forum to post your message. however before posting you should be able to pick a maximum of 2 other forums that your question should be linked from.
This is similar to what 'crossposting' means to most Usenet users, as opposed to 'multiposting'.
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Yet another cross posting solution. I think this one is by far the best yet, but then again im bias. Cross Posting is something we have always tried to discourage here, and AFAIK most forums do the same. You would have thought that the general populus would have cottoned on by now but they have not. However, I think there is good reason. Say I want to ask a question about a topic such as Threading. I write code in C# and I want all the people in the C# forum to provide me an answer but I dont want to miss out on people who only really look in the .NET Framework forum. There has always been the rule of "Pick the best forum, and post it there", but this misses the poiint slightly. What im getting at is there is alot of cross-over in our forums (think ASP.NET written in C#, LINQ from a C# app etc etc) So here's my proposed solution. When you post a new message you should, as normal, pick the most relevant forum to post your message. however before posting you should be able to pick a maximum of 2 other forums that your question should be linked from. Your message gets displayed in your "Primary forum" and in your selected "Secondary forum(s)" a message is posted which clearly indicates its a cross-posted message. So basically if I post in C# a message shows there as usual: "How do I create a widget using dowhickies?" and in the secondary forum(s): "From C#: How do I create a widget using dowhickies?" To make sure we dont get replies posted in many forums all "reply" links lead to the primary forum where the message was posted. So all replies to my thread go into the forum I initially chose as the most relevant one.
There's a slightly better way to do this that I've been wanting to do for months now. You're close. I'll let you know when I'm finished. ;)
cheers, Chris Maunder
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