I am going to drag this thread on a little more.
There have been quite a few replies regarding two subjects:
1.) The opinion that the list/forum should be locked down somehow, based
on a valid steam ID, or a server ID, etc.
2.) That the communications on the list should be limited to "server
operations" or limited to server operators.
The common factor to both is that it seems like we are objecting to some
of the content on the mailing list as being irrelevant or off-topic.
I really don't have a non-obvious suggestion for how to improve this
here on the mailing list.
But, I can point out to all of us the alternative:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=45
For those of you who like forums, there it is. =)
Of the twenty threads on the front page, minus the stickies, my opinion
tells me they all fell into the following categories and percentiles:
20% Unix 101
20% Computer basics 101
20% I can't read the FAQs, can't google it, can't spell, PLEASE HELP ME!
20% I'm doing something bat-shit crazy, PLEASE HELP ME!
10% Off-topic
10% Legit questions
Note that I'm only looking at the Linux forums. I don't read the
Windows forums because they are even worse.
Some of the more humorous/stupid ones:
The six year old thread bump;
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=292724
The guy who named his map file '$2000$';
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2195589
Some guy has mp3 files and replays confused;
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2177640
This guy wants wants more pointy clicky in his life;
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2165489
Rob Liu wrote:
I have another suggestion. Maybe limit the mailing list to server operators
only?
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