90% of the time I just redirect them to the google group, unless it's something trivial that can be answered right away without any doubts. And my signature has a "this forum is deprecated", so every message is a reminder :-)
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:28 PM, John Simons <[email protected]>wrote: > The old forum keeps on hunting us! > Henry and Hamilton, can we please please please get it closed? > > Mauricio, > Don't take this the wrong way but, I noticed you keep on answering > questions there, that may be the reason why people keep on posting > over there. > > Cheers > John > > On Apr 15, 4:08 am, Krzysztof Koźmic <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Why the forum is not closed for posting? > > > > On 2010-04-14 19:15, Mauricio Scheffer wrote: > > > > > Problem is, people don't read. They won't read the sticker about > > > stackoverflow (or won't care) and they will continue to cross-post > > > everywhere they *can* post, just as they're still posting on the old > > > phpBB forum (http://forum.castleproject.org) right now, despite the > > > stickies and warnings. > > > I agree about the custom stack exchange, it wouldn't benefit anyone. > > > > > On Apr 14, 4:54 am, Krzysztof Koźmic (2)<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> I don't see any value in custom stack exchange site. > > >> SO works well, and it gets a lot more eyeballs than custom website. > > > > >> That means potentially far more people can answer questions and > > >> potentially > > >> far more people can stumble upon Castle related question and learn > > >> about the project. > > > > >> I don't see why we would retire google group. It is not well suited > > >> for Q&A but people > > >> seem to like it, so I'd only put a big sticker in the welcome message > > >> encouraging to ask > > >> Q&A questions on SO but leave the google group as is. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Castle Project Development List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<castle-project-devel%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/castle-project-devel?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Castle Project Development List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/castle-project-devel?hl=en.
