#Best-Practices Channel (Read Only)

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patent flame
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I would like to propose a channel that is read only and sinply houses upvoted replies on best practices in general for developement. If some one provides a great response to another person's question, users could tag it with a specific emoji.

After it has been tagged a certain number of time it gets auto-linked into the new channel as both a reference and a jump point. Essentially a channel that is just a quick reference and search point encapsulating all channels.

brisk gate
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Hm, seems susceptible to brigading. Just spam emojis on any old spam.
What does this do that pins don't?

patent flame
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A lot of good information doesn't get pinned because some channels move too fast and discord searching is very subjective based on the provided keywords. With a user influenced voting aystem, it won't need to solely rely on an admin to review posts in the past that they may have not seen that could be invaluable to others.

Naturally the channel would need to have some small amount of moderation of course to prevent abusing the voting method so people arent filling the channel with funny and/or sarcastic responses. But given that it would be read only, a simple scroll through and post removal from the channel wouldn't take too much time.

finite urchin
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I could definitely see a few that are broadly applicable, such as hot reloading, ctor helpers, constructor do’s and don’t, visibleanywhere component pointers, PSA for TEXT() overuse in FName stuff like CDSO.

Maybe not an entire Chanel but a second message inside the Welcome or FAQ

foggy fable
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I do think we need to solve the pin issue for c++ though....

Right now it has a mix of total beginner stuff to large unexplained (in the pinned post) code snippets workarounds for topics that require some foundations

The narrow window doesn't help with this (I only use desktop, don't know about mobile)

image.png
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I've been against (and for) this "Best Practices"/"FAQ" channel idea before...

I think right now I'm on the side of this being a good idea for hosting posts that would otherwise be pins and to use the actual pin system less.

Nobody reads the pins unless we tell them to (in #cpp at least) so it wouldn't be any different sending them to a "Pin" channel.

If this is done I think only mods should be allowed to post in this channel; maybe even make it an forum channel so each pin has a thread and mods only post in those threads to expand the original post

finite urchin
cloud cave
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I'd be for this, but not as a channel; Use a forum so posts can actually be easily found by the people they pertain to.

Else you'll end up with one channel containing:
Rendering post
CPP post
rendering post
CPP post
CPP post
Blueprint
CPP post
Rendering
Physics
(and this WILL happen because of individual post limits)

Additionally forum posts allow it to be editable by other people with the permissions to do so.

small violet
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Thats how i organize my personal stuff ^ works pretty well imo. Wouldn't mind that here aswell, somewhat curated like pins are today i guess

keen summit
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This just sounds like pins minus the curation. If anyone can add the emoji then it's also prone to spam

small violet
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Only mods / people with priviliges / can add to it, keeping it curated

keen summit
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That's not how the suggestion was worded? It says

After it has been tagged a certain number of times it gets auto-linked into the new channel

small violet
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Oh how did i miss that part 🤔 thats less tempting ofc.

foggy fable
small violet
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The bigger benefit as I see it id the bigger posts with perhaps a tad more context to its content without becoming a wall of text compared to the tiny pins (which seem to be hidden more and more on mobile, at least)