2011-03-02, 13:57
This is probably a bit off base and may be a bit heretical: what about migrating to a reddit style system?
The ability to vote good posts up and to bury bad ones would help avoid spam and since it's deigned to allow discussion of links it could be altered to only allow discussion of self posts and links to our wiki. How To posts would then be more quickly added to the wiki and the online manual would grow. The software would likely need to be reskined but it might improve things.
/end pie-in-the-sky fantasising
The ability to vote good posts up and to bury bad ones would help avoid spam and since it's deigned to allow discussion of links it could be altered to only allow discussion of self posts and links to our wiki. How To posts would then be more quickly added to the wiki and the online manual would grow. The software would likely need to be reskined but it might improve things.
/end pie-in-the-sky fantasising