Forum Patterns
Forum patterns: The problem of surfing on other people’s thread
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008Though not a frequent pattern on public forums, but one that exists: The “surfing on other people’s thread” pattern describes a post of a different subject than the subject handled in the thread it gets appended to. Mostly the appending forum user is not the same as the thread owner. The motivation users have to […]
Forum patterns: The problem of posting to the wrong forum
Monday, May 19th, 2008A while back I wrote about the “lost usecase” anti-pattern for questions asked on public forums. Seems that there are many more of those anti-patterns that are worth to discover and document.
In this blog I like to talk a bit about the problem of posting to the wrong forum. I bet all of us have […]
Forum patterns: The problem of the lost usecase when asking questions on a forum
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008There are many good hints floating around on the Internet as of how to ask questions on a public forum. We too have such a document that Shay Shmeltzer put together to help OTN forum users to turn a question into a successful question with a good chance for a sufficient answer. One issue I […]
