Choosing the community to post a suggestion to

[pauamma]

Title:
Choosing the community to post a suggestion to

Area:
suggestions

Summary:
Allow posting autogenerated suggestions (including the poll) to another community than dw_suggestions, when the suggestion topic would fit that community better.

Description:
Some suggestions of a specialized nature (eg, technical support tools) may be better discussed in a community dedicated to that purpose than in a general user-facing suggestions community, because similar or related discussions take place in that community already, and because people interested in that subject may not track or read dw_suggestions consistently. (The volume can get a bit overwhelming at times.) However, bypassing the suggestions generator and writing a freeform entry about the suggestion loses some useful features such as the autogenerated poll. Having a way to send the suggestion to one of a limited list of other communities would give he user the best of both worlds.

Edit 20090815, clarification: The kind of suggestions I have in mind are for specialized tools or features (eg, diagnostic tools for tech support, or a better FAQ editor), which would likely be discussed in a specialized comm anyway, suggestions generator or not. So this wouldn't shift suggestions away from dw_suggestions, it would make the suggestions generator available to discussions that would be likely in another comm to begin with.

Edit 20090816, spec tweak: Overall response is that dw_suggestions should keep its dedicated generator page. Beyond that, having a separate page offering a clone of the suggestions generator targeting specialized communities may work. One way this may be implemented is the posting template idea someone suggested.

Drawbacks:
- Extra effort required to maintain the community list and access control (not everyone may be allowed to post suggestions to all communities in the list).
- Unwanted, abusive, or offtopic entries, to those communities that don't have moderated posing.
- Handling suggestions sent to the wrong community, since there's no way to move an entry between moderation queues or between communities.

Poll #1006 Choosing the community to post a suggestion to

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 29

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Should be implemented as-is.
1 (3.4%)

Should be implemented with changes.
5 (17.2%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
16 (55.2%)

(I have no opinion)
5 (17.2%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (6.9%)