By: TiG • Tech Meta • 1 Comments • 4 years ago
The Challenge
Seeding is a clumsy process. Source articles have very different structures, embed advertisements and other distractions, including at times complex HTML that screws up the...
Guide to Comment Panels
By: TiG • Tech Meta • 10 Comments • 4 years ago
Comment Panels
At the beginning of the comments section for each NewsTalkers article you will find a series of circular buttons. These buttons each are a minimized representation of a...
Guide to Threads
By: TiG • Tech Meta • 7 Comments • 4 years ago
Thread Basics
NewsTalkers uses hierarchic comments to organize long discussions. First level comments have integer identifies (1,2,… n). Second level comments have two integers such as 3.4...
Guide to Migration
By: TiG • Tech Meta • 9 Comments • 5 years ago
Types of Articles
NewsTalkers provides three types of articles: discussion, blog and group discussion. The discussion type is the most common - it is used to create articles (original or...
Guide to Participating Groups
By: TiG • Tech Meta • 80 Comments • 6 years ago
Groups Have Grown Up
NewsTalkers groups provide a forum for like-minded individuals to focus on a particular subject matter. As an example, we could easily have a Chess group where chess...
Guide to Threads
By: TiG • Tech Meta • 50 Comments • 6 years ago
Threads
Comments on an article tend to split into threads of discussion. A thread is a topic comment along with its set of reply comments. The topic comment typically focuses on an aspect...
Notes on New Moderation Functionality
By: TiG • Tech Meta • 4 Comments • 6 years ago
Moderators now have a support system to automate most of the manual work that has taken place behind the scenes. The new system will be largely transparent to members - especially if one is...