My thoughts over the discussions in the forum

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Hi Community folks I'm starting this discussion over the quality of the posts in our forum. Now a days I'm analyzing that quality of questions as well as the answer of posts is beautifully getting up to the mark. I've been here around 3 years participating in discussions so I can observe the change happening. My suggestion is to post your answer as giving proper guidance to the user as people come to post a query when they either don't find the answer after searching or they running out of time in searching for the solution. This will definitely make the user to come back and visit the forum again either for query or favor back towards the community. On the other hand I see if its a discussion forum then there should have been discussions over technology Current affairs and everything else and that makes the sense of being here to discuss. So folks start something new Lets talk Lets discuss. Feature Request:- Also as a additional functionality that can be added is the popular forum discussions section that will show the Hot discussions which are being discussed by users. I'm eagerly waiting for the new release of the C-sharpcorner.com with all new features.

Amit Choudhary · Answer

Well Suthish I liked that when you started that SQLServer fun threads but that was specific to the SQL geeks.. and so eveybody didn't pay much attention to it.. Moreover discussion could be among us people who post the answers infact We're not here just to post the answers and articles. So if I want to start a debate on some topic then forum would be the best place not the blog not the articles. Benefits from it would be the content available to read for the Readers.

Suthish Nair · Answer

Majority of members looking for an answer for their queries. I don't know how much will this help in just doing discussion. Suggestions might be the best way to say. I once tried with SQL Server Fun topics but nobody interested. People just visit the forums and waiting for their answers.

Sam Hobbs · Answer

I am not real familiar with stackoverflow but it seems to be not conducive to discussion; it seems to me that discussion is limited by its software. Perhaps I just don't understand it well enough. It is good to create a new category but the category for Coffee and Chai could work for many things. I think the important thing is to have at least one forum category for chit-chat. One other feature that these forums could benefit from is a way to designate a thread or a forum as being for discussion and therefore no answer is relevant or expected. Perhaps that would be a way to turn off the stupid automatic email that is sent whenever a thread is created. The messages are not a probelm even when they have absolutely nothing of value and the messages are extremely important when they do have something relevant to a question but often they do not help especially when they have suggestions that are totally irrelevant to a thread that is intended to be a comment or discussion.

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Yes so they post any topic. It can be a question or simple discussion. Sometimes it is like a blog and people discuss it. May be we can do the same.

Amit Choudhary · Answer

Thanks Mahesh for your time.. and your quick action :) I really appreciate it. So the category is there so the things would be at the place soon. I've been analyzing the stackoverflow from last few days and found why the forum is so popular and the answer was Discussions and only Discussions happening with such a good quality of each post there seems like every answer post is a Blog itself. So I came up with the Idea here. I hope we'll see people talking arguing expressing supporting... uhhh!! I like it cause it will pop out nothing but knowledge and that's what the c-sharpcorner mend for. Cheers!! Everyone.

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Created a new category on Current Affairs http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Forums/Post/199/current-affairs.aspx

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Good thinking Amit. Yes! Let's start topics on current affairs and hot topics. It can be anything that we are interested in. For Top threads what we can do is create Hot Topics and place them in the right side. Also we are creating a Tag cloud that will show what most people are reading and searching. I think on the right side bar we do not need Latest Articles Latest News Latest Blogs and Top Articles. We can use this space to show HOT DISCUSSIONS and Top threads and top users on the forums. I think we are going to put back Thumbs Down option that we had before to monitor the quality of replies. We had this before but it created a problem for some members but now we all focusing on quality we can put it back. Cheers!