[tor-bugs] #5995 [Company]: Build Q&A Forum with translations

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#5995: Build Q&A Forum with translations
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 Reporter:  phobos              |          Owner:  phobos
     Type:  project             |         Status:  new   
 Priority:  normal              |      Milestone:        
Component:  Company             |        Version:        
 Keywords:  SponsorI, SponsorL  |         Parent:        
   Points:                      |   Actualpoints:        
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Comment(by mo):

 The core dev of Askbot got back to me pretty quickly. Kudos. :)

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 [12:38:09] <    gamambel> | evgeny: hi! thanks for getting back to me so
 quickly.
 [12:38:32] <    gamambel> | evgeny: what do you mean by "user groups
 feature"? i didn't see anything resembling "subforums".
 [12:39:09] <      evgeny> | sure - groups are like tags that mark people
 and content
 [12:39:21] <    gamambel> | evgeny: also, we require guest postings from
 non-registered users. this has been a feature suggestion
           on askbot forums already. what do you think, would it be
 manageable to hack that into askbot?
 [12:39:50] <      evgeny> | the question is - what are you going to do
 with spam?
 [12:39:57] <    gamambel> | evgeny: to be clear, i am not asking you to
 add all "our" features. we are considering, if you/your
           time doesn't have time or the willingness to implement it, to
 maybe do it ourselves.
 [12:40:18] <      evgeny> | you're going to get a lot of robot-posted
 trash
 [12:40:38] <    gamambel> | evgeny: CAPTCHA for guest postings? add them
 to a moderation queue (not visible to the public)? i
           don't really know.
 [12:40:47] <      evgeny> | possible
 [12:41:09] <      evgeny> | anonymous user can be emulated by auto-
 assigning posts to a special user account
 [12:41:27] <      evgeny> | some spam will get past captcha too
 [12:41:41] <      evgeny> | we have moderation
 [12:41:56] <      evgeny> | also - we have "reply by email"
 [12:42:04] <    gamambel> | especially since we want to avoid recaptcha
 because it transmits the user IP to google servers...
 [12:42:31] <      evgeny> | I think you will need some form of captcha to
 deal with spam
 [12:42:32] <    gamambel> | can i interact with askbot completely by mail?
 say, subscribe to a certain tag, get new questions my
           mail, and then answer via mail?
 [12:42:40] <      evgeny> | or some clever system for auto-dedection
 [12:42:41] <    gamambel> | how do users "log in" via mail?
 [12:42:54] <      evgeny> | "interact completely" - no
 [12:43:03] <      evgeny> | but you can ask, answer and comment
 [12:43:14] <      evgeny> | users first register on the site
 [12:43:20] <      evgeny> | then they get an email
 [12:43:24] <    gamambel> | that would be killer :) most tor people don't
 really like the idea of a web forum, but are used to
           answering questions on mailinglists.
 [12:43:56] <      evgeny> | sure - it could be useful
 [12:45:28] <    gamambel> | one last question for now then: you seem to be
 available for contract work if we wanted a certain
           feature but couldn't do it ourselves. is that correct?
 [12:45:47] <      evgeny> | yes - that's what we do. full time now.
 [12:46:23] <    gamambel> | nice! hope it works out for you :)
 [12:46:59] <      evgeny> | I'm working on askbot full time for a year
 now, it's going quite well.
 [12:47:14] <      evgeny> | based in Chile now
 [12:47:48] <    gamambel> | if i have more questions i will find you here
 or via email. if you have comments, likewise. are you
           okay with me posting this IRC log with our trac ticket?
 [12:48:00] <    gamambel> | thank you for taking the time.
 [12:48:29] <      evgeny> | sure thing
 [12:48:48] <    gamambel> | great!
 }}}

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