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Originally posted by Jack
This is just a thought. If you are going to be using the 'extra discuession' forum for all this stuff, it might be get a little of a mess. Mabey have the white papers go into a seperate forum. Also, will the 'click here to continue' only be in the Q&A forum? I have a feeling that someone will ask a question, a 'Q&A Answerer' will respond, but then people will click the continue link so that they can put in their answer. I'm just a little worried that it will be like putting half of the current Tech. forums into one forum. (100's of new topics every day) Yes, you could moderate it, but it would be very hard with all of them. Mabey you could have it so that the 'continue' link would add the topic to one of the current tech. forum. (of coures, the one that the topic applys to) (Yes, i know. You're yelling at me right now  ) I really wouldn't know how to do it except for having the 'Q&A Answerer' that replys select where the 'continue' discuession would go if one were to occure. Have fun
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The Q&A 'continue discussion' link currently takes you to a confirm page, as do all extra discussion links. Soon, I will have it ask the first person which forum the thread should be posted in, so there arent 100's of threads in the Extra Discussion forum. I just wanted a place to dump the other threads that wouldn't be browsed much (ie: white papers, pictures, etc).
So -- hooray for flowcharts.
Code:
(if no thread exists) -> [choose forum] -> [reply]
[paper] -> [click discuss] <
(if thread exists) -> [reply]
I thought about having the Q&A Answerer choose where the discussion would go -- but that was too much like work. The flow chart above wasn't an idea until people started making tons of new discussion links by accident... i had to put in a confirm page. And just a few minutes ago, I realized that the confirm page would be a perfect place to choose a new forum, if they were making a Q&A discussion thread. So...thanks for indirectly sparking an idea