I personally would love to see forums where we could all post and have a thread
for projects we are working on
--- Original Message ---
From: "Chris Egeland" <[email protected]>
Sent: November 13, 2013 4:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [SH-Discuss] Offtopic List?
*watches the subscriber count jump by two*
Yeah, the subreddit exists. Nothing really gets posted to it due to its
low subscriber count.
We usually post stuff to /r/Akron and /r/Cleveland rather than to the
subreddit itself. However, if you really value your precious interweb
points, feel free to post something there and ask for up-phongs to the
negative x-axis. At least I'll upvote you.
Chris
On 11/13/2013 4:40 PM, Ben Lippincott wrote:
> 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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>> --
>> Thanks!
>> Ben Lippincott
>>
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>> Ben Lippincott
>>
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> Ben Lippincott
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