Forums 4 - Release 3 - May 28, 2009
May enabled a new feature called “escalate” enabling MVP Moderators to flag threads for MSFT attention. This can only be used in forums where the Microsoft Forum Owners have decided to enable and allow for this feature. Moderators that have questions about this feature or if it will be enabled in their forums should contact their forum owners. Escalated threads (by MVP Moderators) can be filtered by moderators and is a way for MVP Moderators to flag threads that need a Microsoft response.
Forum RSS feed formats were changed to default to ATOM feeds. Existing RSS feeds authored or subscribed to prior to the May release will continue to functional indefinitely.
The team also fixed a few internal facing bugs in some of our core reporting.
Users can now search in private forums. This includes the ability to search forums that require special access or permissions such as moderator only forums.
Changes have been made in how thread views are counted. Prior to the May release views were updated on every request. This exposed the potential abuse to inflate the view numbers, used by some to gauge popularity. A change was made in May to ensure this number cannot be easily incremented or abused.
The team also addressed a few RTE issues around formatting code and editing hyperlinks.
Community Forums Program Manager- Changed TypeBrent SerbusMSFT, AdministratorMonday, June 22, 2009 8:56 PMThis is no question.
- Edited byBrent SerbusMSFT, AdministratorMonday, June 22, 2009 9:02 PMupdating date
