So folks, how do we preserve posts with high quality advice and tips so that others can find them and ensure that all that nice advice doesn't disappear into the mists of time as it slides down the forum post threads?
As an example, I have just received the most wonderful reply from @roamer4223 detailing how they use a secondary GooglePlay profile to manage and update all their apps in all profiles: (https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/12070-how-to-extract-the-apk-of-a-package-installed-in-a-secondary-profile/9). I'd be sad if other newcomers missed it because that discussion thread was no longer active.
I guess a solution might look a bit like a wiki. But wikis can be chaotic and inaccurate; or time consuming for developers and mods to keep accurate when wrong/mistaken advice is published. And the GrapheneOS devs will not have the time to manage such a beast - they have already given us our beautiful documentation on the website.
... but still, there are lots of really good tips popping up in this forum all the time.
What to do?
I'm wondering whether it is possible to use the forum flags in some way. A useful, wiki quality post could be copied into a mod locked WIKI TOPIC discussion thread
with a Good Tip flag
or WIKI flag
for easy filtering and that only mods can allocate.
So, as an example work flow:
- There is an existing locked
WIKI: updating apps
discussion thread with a WIKI flag
.
- Somewhere on the forum @roamer4223 posts helpful, detailed tips on using a dedicated secondary updater profile to update all apps in all profiles.
- Someone says, 'hey this is great, should be in the wiki'.
- The post passes a mod/dev quality threshold and a mod copies it into the
WIKI: updating apps
discussion thread but keeps that wiki discussion locked.
- To avoid too much 'noise pollution', if people want to discuss a
wiki post
, they start a new discussion linking to the post in the locked wiki discussion.
There needs to be some rules. Some suggestions:
- The GrapheneOS website documentation must retain its primacy.
- Only mods can use a
WIKI flag
.
- Mods keep WIKI discussions locked.
- Only Project developers & mods can determine if a post has the correctness & quality to be added to one of the locked
WIKI flagged discussion
threads.
- Forum members can propose a post for promotion/flagging to one of the forum wiki discussions.