I understand that closing old threads may help moderation load and keep threads a little clearer and limited in their topic, but I fail to see the mechanism that would make the load grow exponentially with time. Is there some moment where threads start to get two replies per week for every post they receive? I have trouble imagining how that could be supported without an exponential growth of the user base. Do automatic bots take over at some point?
(perhaps there are specific triggers for this kind of thing. I imagine the improper use of the term “exponential” might be one)
How best to flag? As “Off Topic” to be “moved elsewhere”? Or as “Something else”?
Should this be in Framework Community Forums 101?
How best to flag? As “Off Topic” to be “moved elsewhere”? Or as “Something else”?
In both of the above, “Something else” is requred to suggest under which topic or category it should go. Maybe, under “Off topic”, add a text field to suggest a better topic or category.
Looks like I forgot to add the link there, this is fixed now, thank you.
I think it’s safe to use “Something Else” and add a small note like (it should be merged with this thread" or “this should be under Community Support”, we’ll take care of the rest.
When posting to the general thread - I had to put two optional tags.
But the optional tags where only suggesting OS names.
So once I tagged Ubuntu (my OS) what’s the point of adding another OS tag?
Wouldn’t it be better if there where tags that where actually relevant to the question I had.
e.g - dual-display sizing and firefox
I created this post.
Besides the post’s main tag - Framework Laptop 13 Linux, it required me adding optional tags. It required two optional tags other wise it would not post it to the forum.
And I could only choose from a list of optional tags provided by the ui.
That list only contained names of OSs
So I was forced to put two names of OSs - Ubuntu and Debian - but the debian really was redundant.
It would have been better to allow me to add my own tag besides the compulsary OS tag.
Maybe after a while you guys could see emerging tag trends??? Which might be helpful??
thank you for the explanation, only one distro tag should be enough for the linux subcategory, I’ve changed the settings to reflect that.
What kind of other tags would you like to add to this one? I believe we only have the Distro tags for the Linux subcategories and “issue” tags for the Community support" category.
Great.
I don’t really know.
I’d go about it in one of two ways:
Let the user enter their own tag - collect all these tags into a list of secnodery or tricery tags??
Seeing what the main questions are about and creating a list of tags from the issues most reported. Something like - Ryzen 7040 or Hardware or Multi-displays.
just some thoughts in the matter
we do have a list of tags for the common issues/components. but it’s not enabled for the linux subcategory, since we already have 20 tags there. we can certainly enable the issue tags as “optional” tags for linux subcategories is there is demand/need for that.
Apparently I can not use the “bios” and “intel-us1” tags in the “Linux” subcategory?
I believe this combination of subcategory and tags would be most appropriate for my problem, since it will most likely only concern linux user,- is also most likely an issue with the firmware and affects the specific device.
Best
P.S.: Sorry for directly replying to @Destroya, seems like I used the wrong “Reply” button and I don’t see how to undo it now.
Hey Niklas, thanks for sharing, if your issue is about firmware, I think you can create it under Framework Laptop 13 category (instead of Framework Laptop 13 - Linux subcategory)
) the orange/grey theme has always been quite unreadable regarding the topic listing.
