René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Require Users to Pass a Test Before Allowing Them to Ask Questions","articleBody":"We should prevent users from using the help system unless they have passed a test indicating that they have read and understood the help guidelines and some basics of how to ask good questions.\r\n\r\nDan suggested that such a test should include the following:\r\n- Formatting code (using triple backticks and syntax highlighting).\r\n- Knowing how to use the help system.\r\n- Knowing that Javascript is different from Java.\r\n\r\nI suggest that we implement such a test in the following way:\r\n\r\n1. A user sends a message in an available help channel. While reserving, we check if the user is not yet approved to ask questions. Continue to next step if not yet approved.\r\n2. The bot reserves the channel anyways, and replies to the user with a question. The user must answer the question correctly to continue (clicking an interaction button, sending a valid message in the channel, etc.).\r\n3. If the user answers all questions correctly, the channel is then kept reserved and the user's question can be asked. Otherwise, the bot tells the user to read the help guidelines and try again, and then unreserves the channel.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/andrewlalis","@type":"Person","name":"andrewlalis"},"datePublished":"2021-11-20T13:42:23.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/22/JavaBot2/issues/22"}