Define comments rules and policy

[fakedarren]

We need to clearly define a policy for comments throughout the site and a plan for what to do in the eventuality that they become super-useful / super-bad etc.

[fakedarren]

My 2 cents:

• No comments unmoderated
• We reserve the right to delete anything without any notice
• Comments in documentation will be deleted after 2 weeks once the feedback has been applied to the documentation / demo / whatever in question

In this way we can avoid any stupid comments, links to crap demos, etc, and we still get the positives allowing simple feedback / contributions etc.

If it goes well we can relax these rules over time. I prefer to gradually relax the rules as opposed to the other way around.

[anutron]

In a thread about adding disqus to the forge. Here's what Darren and I said about it:

3:04:00 PM Aaron Newton: My moderation policy is simple: no rants, no foul language, no fanboi comments 3:04:03 PM Aaron Newton: everything else goes 3:04:25 PM Darren Waddell: but some people are very against that kind of policy in say docs 3:04:38 PM Aaron Newton: I can see that 3:04:43 PM Darren Waddell: we don't want it to turn into PHP docs, eg, full of non-ranty but ultimately crap comments 3:04:51 PM Aaron Newton: I think though 3:04:54 PM Aaron Newton: if you want commentary 3:05:12 PM Aaron Newton: you have to take everything that isn't outright anti-community things 3:05:14 PM Aaron Newton: trolling for example 3:05:20 PM Aaron Newton: one nice thing about disqus 3:05:25 PM Aaron Newton: is people can vote comments up 3:05:31 PM Darren Waddell: I love disqus for sure 3:05:49 PM Darren Waddell: we just need that box above (like the one on the jQuery docs) that sets the rules clearly 3:05:57 PM Aaron Newton: my comment policy on jqvsmoo: A note on comments here: These comments are moderated. No comments will show up until they are approved. Comments that are not productive (i.e. inflammatory, rude, etc) will not be approved. Similarly, "fan" comments won't be approved either - i.e. no "FrameworkX Rulez! It's better than FrameworkY for realz!" are not constructive comments. 3:06:13 PM Darren Waddell: that's fair 3:06:22 PM Aaron Newton: I'll put that on the forge 3:06:27 PM Darren Waddell: can you comment accordingly on that ticket? I want Walsh and Nathan's input too 3:06:27 PM Aaron Newton: might tweak the language slightly

[fakedarren]

@nfq? @darkwing? If you guys are happy with the above I'm happy

[nfq]

Looks good to me.. And great initiative.

[SitePenDavidWalsh]

I approve.

[fakedarren]

Excellent! Well, that was easy.