I think this is a good idea On Sunday, April 7, 2013, Mak Kolybabi wrote:
> I was talking with some people today and it made me think about the > ridiculous > diversity of skilled members we have at SkullSpace. This resulted in > mulling > over the idea of creating a new mailing list dedicated to technical > questions > and opinions. Now, wait, before you grab your pitchforks or casually push > me > into traffic, let me give a few more (proposed) details that make it sound > like > this may end up being less of a ridiculous gong show... > > 1) The mailing list would be *private*, meaning that only people > subscribed to > the mailing list could see the questions and answers. There would be no > public archive. > > 2) Only SkullSpace *members* would be eligible to subscribe, preventing the > inevitable "Hey, there's a hackerspace in town that does tech support, > we > should get *them* to fix all our shit!" > > 3) The sort of people that are likely to be on this list would be members > of > SkullSpace, meaning that you would hope for some minimal amount of > research/Googling of a question first. Fine, yeah, I know that's a > delusion. Stop crushing my hopes and dreams. > > 4) A small group of highly technical subscribers might result in > higher-quality, > quicker answers to questions. As those in the IRC channel can tell you, > we're > quick to respond with the exact link someone needs in response to a > question, > followed by a snide remark about how the asker should "Learn to > Internet." > > 5) Librarians know this better than most: people often have *no* idea what > they > really want to know when they ask a question. I'm sure we've all had the > experience of having to ask someone a dozen questions before we pin > down what > a person's question *should* be. How many times have you asked a > question on > IRC and had someone respond with what you needed because they chose a > single > different word in their Google query? > > 6) We never want these sort of questions on discuss@, in my opinion. > > That's all the arguments I have in favour of a new mailing list. The most > obvious argument against it is that there are a million different forums, > IRC > channels, FAQs, and mailing lists that already exist on the Internet for > this. > My only counter-argument would be that people should (hopefully) check > those > first. Still dreaming, I know. > > There, I've proposed my mad scheme, let the lambasting begin. > > -- > Mak Kolybabi > <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > > () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org | Against proprietary extensions > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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