Main Points

Quick discussion on collaboration measurements
- System designed to measure number of topics being produced as well as number of responses

Forum features

Freelancer, doesn’t appear to be any forum on their, just discussion between requester and worker.
- One to one communication, how beneficial is that?
WarriorForum, http://www.warriorforum.com/
- Anonymity, also allow for personal chats
  - Voting process anonymous
  - Can’t see who voted what
Searching by tags and keywords
- follow different threads
Anonymous voting and recommendation
- to avoid the issue of people reacting to the voting rather than the post itself
  - Does anonymous voting improve satisfaction than non-anonymous voting?
  - Participatory voting, non necessary
Notifications of pressing forum ideas
"sticky" forum thread is always placed on the top part of each forum
forum dictated by ranking and voting
- what are good types of voting mechanisms

IM available on the platform
- Keeping records of the chats to help with disputes
Should leadership board have access to chat logs?
What kind of disputes?
- quality of work finished
- payment issues
- rating being given
- misunderstands of task requirements
  - misunderstanding what the requester wanted

voting type feature within forum posts
Should we have this all within one application?
- Separate tabs, making it working with more than one tool
- Avoid confusion with having it within one area
- Bandwidth, a lot of traffic to the site to have it all on one