WHAT?! WHY WAS I NOT TOLD ABOUT THIS? aaaaaaa reddit i love you
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Chris Egeland <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Forums were discussed a couple of years ago in the beginning. The
opposition to them was that people would have to register in order
to use them, and then it's another web app that we have to
maintain, apply security patches to, and everyone else would have
to remember credentials for. Personally, I don't think the
community (members, friends of the space, people interested in us,
etc) is large enough to justify running something like vBulletin,
SMF or phpBB.
Reddit is kinda already implemented (we have a SYN/HAK subreddit),
but I think only a handful of us actually use the site. The
subreddit has something like six posts in 8 months.
More mailing lists appeals to me because it makes it possible for
people to subscribe to channels of discussion that are relevant to
them. For example, if we were to start making mailing lists that
are specific to individual projects (for example, the Power Racing
Series cars), someone who is uninterested in the project could
browse the pipermail archives if they wanted to see what was going
on with the project. If they were then interested in the project,
they could join the list and become active that way.
Sure, it's nice to have one big massive list that everyone
subscribes to, but eventually you start to get the people that are
overwhelmed with the amount of email they are receiving.
Chris
On 11/13/2013 4:20 PM, Ben Lippincott wrote:
We could make a private subreddit
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Justin Herman <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Seems like a different medium might work better. I fear that
different people will have different opinions about what is
off-topic.
Maybe instead....
Fourm
Reddit
etc.
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Ben Lippincott
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Wooot! Let's do it!
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Bethany Munyan
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I was thinking the same thing. I like the idea of
having an 'off-topic' mailing list.
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Chris Egeland
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hey hackers!
I've been watching the mailing lists very closely
for some time now, and have noticed a general
uptrend in the volume of email sent to the
discuss list. Sometimes we get offtopic and go
off on tangents about toast, or other topics
which are fun to talk about, but are ultimately
irrelevant to the space itself. Usually, this
isn't a problem, but for someone who is
interested in the space, but not the minutiae of
every little bit of day-to-day operations, it can
quickly turn into an overwhelming amount of email.
Today, I'm asking for input on how we should
proceed with the mailing lists. As you may know,
we currently have 5 lists, two of which are
public, one semipublic, and two private.
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
and [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> are the two that
everyone knows about. Members may know that they
are automatically subscribed to
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.
Board members are subscribed to [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> and us sysadmin folk
are members of [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>.
My recommendation is to create an "offtopic"
list, which would have very very lax rules on
what can be posted. Anything you want to chat
about. Want to debate why the RubberDucks is a
terrible team name and the Aeros was WAY better?
Sure, no problem. Got a pothole on Market
street that irks you every day? Have at it.
Joke threads? Toast? No problem. The other side
to this idea is that the discuss list would have
some basic rules imposed that mean that any
topics to the discuss list would be required to
be relevant to the space itself. Projects
occurring at the space would be relevant topics,
open hours discussion, meeting minutes, etc.
So, let me know what you guys think. I'm not
officially proposing this, but we may chat about
it at the next meeting as a discussion topic,
because it would fundamentally mean we change how
the mailing lists are organized and structured.
Thanks,
Chris
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Ben Lippincott
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