Re: [Inkscape-devel] rules and guidelines for new forum - first draft

> No, just read over it again and see if we can harmonise them; making
sure there's no glaring omissions.

Oh ok.  They essentially contain the same info, just organized differently.

Re quotas.  Could it work so that a particular number of messages posted, earns 
a certain quota?  We'd have to have some trial and error to find the right 
numbers.  But that really makes sense, that the people answering the most 
questions are probably posting the most screenshots.

> Prolific answerers are
a bit harder because they're not a group, but doable.

20 mb sounds good for regular members.  The vast majority could probably get by 
with whatever it was before.  But it's the prolific answerers that I was worried 
about.  I think I'd rather see the regular member quota back to what it was 
before (9 or 10 mb?) if that would help make room for the answerers.

Oh, or instead of certain number of messages, could their be other groups? 
Inkscape Community has a group called "mentors" which are the prolific 
answerers.  Just a thought.

I think we want to avoid people having to delete older images to make room for 
newer ones.  Because a lot of people find answers to their problems by searching 
the forum.  But if the image is missing from a message which otherwise answers 
their question, they'll have to post a message anyway.

Should we start thinking about some alternative place where people can upload 
images?  If they can't attach them, then at least they can insert or embed them 
(I'm not sure the proper word, but we talked about it on GL, and I think you had 
agreed to it, as long as it wasn't inline insertions, although I haven't seen it 
yet).

Just out of curiosity.  If the project has its own server, why can't it be 
unlimited?  Since we have the first 2 message moderation system, no attachments 
are seen until they're approved by a moderator.  So the quota isn't needed to 
prevent spam.  Would there be any way to remove the quota for forum uploads 
only?

Thanks,
brynn

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To: brynn ; Inkscape User Community
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Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] rules and guidelines for new forum - first draft

Thanks Brynn,

> Anyway, are you suggesting to use it in the forum, or modify it for
> the forum?

No, just read over it again and see if we can harmonise them; making
sure there's no glaring omissions.

> Certain forums will not be moderated differently.  Not unless you're
> suggesting
> we should have a "NSFW" section?  Do you think there should be
> limitations on
> formats?

No NSFW section, we don't have any age checking or viewer limiters.
Formats are up to the forum, I'm guessing no limits.

> The quota is among several things that keep slipping my mind to ask
> about or
> bring up.  It likely will need to be expanded for the
> forum.  Sometimes people
> want to upload a 20 to 25 mb SVG file.  And the people who do most of
> the
> answering of questions will need much more, as well.  Maybe I should
> make an
> issue in GL for this discussion?

All that's needed is for a reasonable quota to exist, be set to a group
and then add the users to that group so they get to have that quota.

For example moderators are easy. 200MB for them. Prolific answerers are
a bit harder because they're not a group, but doable. Say 100MB? they
can always delete their large files later if them want to.

Say 20MB for regular users for now?

Best Regards, Martin Owens