On 05/06/2016 07:04 AM, Chris wrote:
On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 10:46:22 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
We've had several remarks at DConf that the traffic on this forum
makes it intractable. There's good information, but it's drowned by
the immense off-topic discussions.
We plan to create one more forum to address that, but one thing we
could all do to contribute is to refrain from continuing off-topic
comments, or at least mark them with [OT] in the title.
That said, [OT] comments are also important in a community as they bring
people together in a more casual way.
People may object to them, but really, I've BEEN involved in forums that
tried hard to curb offtopic discussion because the higher-ups were so
opposed to it, and what inevitably winds up happening is the entire
forum/community as a whole just implodes and disappears entirely. I do
NOT want to see D go down that route. Trust me, I've been there, I know,
it's a mistake. It's a classic case of the cure being worse than the
disease.
