Types of Articles
NewsTalkers provides three types of articles: discussion, blog and group discussion. The discussion type is the most common - it is used to create articles (original or...
Groups Have Grown Up
NewsTalkers groups provide a forum for like-minded individuals to focus on a particular subject matter. As an example, we could easily have a Chess group where chess...
Threads
Comments on an article tend to split into threads of discussion. A thread is a topic comment along with its set of reply comments. The topic comment typically focuses on an aspect of...
Moderators now have a support system to automate most of the manual work that has taken place behind the scenes. The new system will be largely transparent to members - especially if one is...
Why Do We Need A Publisher?
NewsTalker’s underlying platform provides native support for three types of articles: Blog, Discussion and Group Discussion. Blogs are for authors (or columnists) to...
Guide to the New Comment Structure
By: TᵢG • TechMeta • 28 Comments • last year
One Newstalkers’ objective is a comment structure that encourages discussion and debate. Oddly, many sites have resorted to strict linear comments 1, 2, 3, … n. (In part because this is very...
What is a Tracker?
A tracker is a mechanism built within a discussion forum that tracks comment activity and presents a custom record of this tracking for each user. The tracker is based on the...
NewsTalker's Comment Structure
By: TᵢG • TechMeta • 12 Comments • 2 years ago
A few new members (especially ex-viners accustomed to NV's structure) have questions regarding the structure of comments in NewsTalkers. The questions are fair, so here is a description of what...