On 10/25/2014 10:12 AM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > On 2014-10-25 13:22, Oliver Propst wrote: >> A few of us had quick chat on irc yesterday about reddit[1] and came >> to the conclusion that there is some positive buzz there [2] about >> GNOME these days, maybe we should think more about how to better >> engage with the reddit community/users. > > I personally find Reddit's lack of response on certain topics and legal > manners [1] misaligned with my values and those that I think are values > of the wider GNOME community. > It's not something I would like to use for outreach myself. I plain > don't want anything to do with it.
I agree that reddit has terrible management and many spiteful and oppressive users. I'm not sure of many other GNU/Linux-focused community forums though. Slashdot is even more hostile than /r/linux, but I'm not sure about hackernews (I feel like hackernews is more programmer-focused). Regardless, while I've learned useful things from /r/linux and had some decent conversations there, I would strongly avoid encouraging people to go there. As a compromise, there's also https://www.reddit.com/r/srslinux and https://www.reddit.com/r/SRSTechnology/ (and https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/ ?) which are populated by far fewer racists, sexists, etc. > > What I would focus on is more proactive instead of reactive outreach. > Spreading good stories instead of trying to fire control the bad ones. That is what I've already been doing for the past 9 months https://www.reddit.com/user/hnasarat/submitted/ I have focused on making sure that people there see and hear about GNOME, and what GNOME people are working on. There's often a fair deal of support for the things I post, but I don't have the patience (nor think it's a useful endeavor) to engage with detractors that inevitably show up. > > 1. http://pento.net/2014/09/10/lets-have-a-chat-about-reddit/ > - Andreas > _______________________________________________ > engagement-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
