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The confidence to allow public comments
Our first venture at Well House Consultants into a web site on which we encouraged public posting was our Opentalk forum where we encourage past trainees and others with questions on the subject we teach to ask. I'll admit to some anxiety at the time that we were planning to launch the service; it's a big step for a company to provide a fast and easy way for his customers to talk about whatever they like (including the company) both in public, and through the "personal messages" of such a site. I needn't have worried, though - our "open Kimono" approach as a colleague in a former job called it works well; we're proud of our product and who we are. "The Horse's Mouth" that you're reading now also encourages comments. If you're seeing a Syndicated copy or archive copy that may not be obvious (but if you read it at source you'll find a link. And we are - (or rather were) about to provide a book review and ranking systems for our library. But why limit it to that? Starting this morning, we're rolling our a rank and review system that will cover almost every page on our web site. You'll see that a Rank/Review button is appearing throughtout our pages as we upload updates. If you visit our course index page for example - updated this morning to add a Perl Course in June - you'll find you can submit a review. During initial testing, our general comment system is sending everything for approval, but this will be reviewed and (I hope) quickly changed. Starting this way will allow us to catch any undocumented bugs in the system and hopefully to catch the perhaps 1-in-1000 who wants to use a system such as ours as a free board for his own advertising. (written 2005-02-06, updated 2006-06-05) Associated topics are indexed under G903 - Well House Consultants - Running and moderating forums[4065] Handling requests to a forum - the background process - (2013-04-17) [4025] Backups, Codebase, Strategy and more - dealing with forum incidents - (2013-03-03) [4017] Acceptable User Policy / vexatious interacter - (2013-02-24) [3910] Identifying your real customers and keeping them well informed fast - (2012-11-02) [3479] Practical Extraction and Reporting - using Python and Extreme Programming - (2011-10-14) [2820] Netiquette for forum newcomers - (2010-06-20) [2781] The 500 pound question to get you started - (2010-05-26) [2569] How to run a successful online poll / petition / survey / consultation - (2010-01-10) [2527] Flying tonight - (2009-12-05) [2526] A reluctance to move from old shoes to new - (2009-12-05) [2386] Computing under the influence of alcohol - (2009-08-29) [2254] Forum membership - a privilege not a right - (2009-06-22) [2177] Preventing forum spam - checks at sign up - (2009-05-12) [2162] Admins thoughts on banning a member from a forum - (2009-05-09) [2156] Stopping forum spam - control of the signup process - (2009-05-04) [2116] Why do we delay new forum members through authorisation? - (2009-04-03) [2103] Ask the Tutor - Open Source forum - (2009-03-25) [1972] Pettifog and forum boards away from public view - (2009-01-03) [1923] Making it all worthwhile - (2008-12-04) [1759] While the world sleeps ... - (2008-08-19) [1678] Software - changes and delays. But courses must run on time! - (2008-06-15) [1595] First Great Western Weekend - (2008-03-30) [1578] Please don't shout at me! - (2008-03-16) [1569] I dont care - goodbye - (2008-03-09) [1563] Guidlines for posting on a forum - (2008-03-04) [1539] A forum is not always the best vehicle - (2008-02-14) [1532] Comment spam blocked. Please comment via Forums - (2008-02-05) [1523] Ive just received an email from myself. Should I be worried? - (2008-01-29) [1485] Copyright and theft of images, bandwidth and members. - (2007-12-26) [1472] The Horse goes on and on - (2007-12-15) [1362] No Thank You - (2007-09-23) [1190] Save the Forum - A regular clean sweep - (2007-05-17) [1088] Why use BBC code not HTML? - (2007-02-21) [948] Running an on line campaign - (2006-11-27) [923] Why shouldn't I spam? - (2006-11-13) [919] Freedom for X is denial of privacy for Y - (2006-11-09) [841] Forum help - a push in the right direction - (2006-08-21) [828] Freedom of speech and freedom to post - (2006-08-10) [806] Check your user is human. Have him retype a word in a graphic - (2006-07-17) [651] Please Register with Opentalk - but just once! - (2006-03-19) [516] Open source questions? Anyone can ask. - (2005-12-03) [424] How not to run a forum - (2005-08-24) [248] Use me, but use me effectively - (2005-03-16) [231] Feedback as lifeblood - (2005-02-28) [130] Spelling and grammar - (2004-11-25) [115] Expiration dates or times on web pages - (2004-11-12) [29] Silence is Golden - (2004-08-26) [22] Falling out over the silliest things - (2004-08-21) G905 - Well House Consultants - Blogging and Blog Administration [4000] 9 years, and 4000 articles on - (2013-02-09) [3759] The five oldest blogs and the horses mouth - (2012-06-09) [3514] Microblogging - what I should have tweeted in the last 48 hours - (2011-11-10) [3208] Links for social media, microblogs and business networking - (2011-03-20) [3186] How to add a customised twitter feed to your site - (2011-02-27) [3163] Twitter - the special use of @ # and http: in tweets - (2011-02-09) [3016] The legal considerations of your web presence - revisited - (2010-10-26) [2823] Where have all the bloggers gone? - (2010-06-24) [2751] Going off at a tangent, for a ramble - (2010-05-04) [2564] Microblogging services - Plurk, Twitter, Jaiku and more - (2010-01-05) [2517] Blogging accuracy - open invitation for any corrections - (2009-11-29) [2449] Four aspects - Chamber, Transport, Courses and Hotel - (2009-10-11) [2192] Copy writing - allowing for the cut - (2009-05-21) [2000] 2000th article - Remember the background and basics - (2009-01-18) [1978] From spam to mod_alias - finding resources - (2009-01-05) [1203] A Fresh horse - (2007-05-24) [1077] In answer to 'am I glad I started a blog' ... - (2007-02-12) [1000] One Thousand Posts and still going strong - (2006-12-18) [876] Making pages clearer - easy Disability Discrimination Act Compliance - (2006-09-23) [671] Both ends of the animal - (2006-04-05) [508] Comment, please! - (2005-11-28) [425] Caching an XML feed - (2005-08-26) [410] Reading a news or blog feed (RSS) in your PHP page - (2005-08-12) [405] Horse's Mouth is a year old - (2005-08-07) [390] Moderating wiki, blog, and forum contributions - (2005-07-26) [359] Chicken soup without the religion - (2005-06-26) [245] I'm not blogging it - (2005-03-14) [185] Who am I? - (2005-01-21) [177] Blogs come of age - (2005-01-14) [145] A comment on comments - (2004-12-09) [141] Too technical? - (2004-12-05) [18] Wanted: More hours in the day - (2004-08-18) [6] Blog v Forum - (2004-08-07) [1] First Jottings - (2004-08-05) 3d49
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