[wp-forums] Services forum

[TechGnome]

I see it as an all or none option. You either allow any kind of service 
to be offered, or none of them. Otherwise accusations of favoritism will 
come back and bite us in the backside. And that will just lead to more 
noise in the forums than we really need (or should) deal with. I agree 
that people may not add the tags, but then if one is found tagless, 1) 
notify the poster, and if it remains tagless for X time, remove it, or 
2) stick the tag on there yourself.

Having a separate listing for commercial offerings doesn't seem to be 
working as it is (isn't that what the wp-pro list is for?)

I dunno, I don't have the solution....

-tg
   

petit at petitpub.com wrote:

> TechGnome <tg at tannagh.com>: says:
>
>> This sparked a thought about an additional "rule" ... enforce the use 
>> of the tags to indicate if they offer commercial or pro-bono "help". 
>> IE, the thread that started all this should have at a minimum of  
>> "templates" and "commercial" (or "paid") tags on it. At least then 
>> there's no surprises when some one clicks the link (thinking they 
>> might get some free templates) only to find out that it's $12.95.
>>
>> -tg
>>
>>
>> Podz wrote:
>>
>>> The thinking continues.....
>>>
>>> Should ALL help be offered through that forum? If we say free help can
>>> be anywhere then people could use that as a front to then charge.
>>>
>>> Should we manually 'nofollow' all links in such a forum to cut down on
>>> possible abuse? By this I mean someone offering help but they leave a
>>> contact website which isn't actually the right one.
>>>
>>> P.
>>
>
> Not being a forum guru, but fairly active in the support forum, I 
> think the free
> an volonatary help offered there is a vluable asset, and as before ads 
> and
> commersial aspects of WordPress contributions should be held off.
>
> Also I belive that manually fix "nofollows" would in the long run 
> become a
> burden for moderators. As was already done before, I think such thing 
> should be
> moderated to a halt, when it appears.
>
> As inevitably commersial requests and offers, will come up as it has 
> in some
> cases, the Services forum may be needed, though I'd rather name it 
> Commersial
> forum. It should have a clear separation from the support forum, and 
> no entries
> from it should show up on the free support forum.
>
> Enforcing tags, doesn't seem to be an option, as they are seldom used 
> in the
> support forum. ( Likwise people normally doesn't "close" threads at 
> resolution
> of a problem. )
>
> I think such a commercial forum could be linked from the support forum 
> with
> someting like: "This is a free support forum for WordPress, the software.
> If you request or offer payed sevices, please post in the anchor: 
> [commercial
> forum]."
>
> And maybe: "If you are a wordpress.com user go to 
> anchor:[wordpress.com/forum]."
>
> References from the support forum to the commercial or services forum 
> should be
> moderated out, as for any other ads in the well known kind and polite 
> manner ;)
>
> IMO: Services forum yes - mixture no - one link only connection.
>
> Opinion from a non moderator.
> /Petit
>
>
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