As something of a response to "Wake up", perhaps some sort of "forum"
system for discussion would beat the mailing list. We wouldn't eradicate
the mailing list, but discussions could also take place there if people
wished to.
I'm thinking, in particular, of something à la Reddit.com or Hacker
News, by which I mean has hierarchical replies with an upvote/downvote
system. The first advantage of such a system over the current one is
that it organises things so that you can see which post replied to which
(aiding readability). This would mean that related things are visually
grouped. It also allows you to express approval or disapproval of a
post, so you can then have it automatically sort by approval, such that
posts with the most "upvotes" float to the top. This is the second
advantage, in that it shows which opinions are most favoured. This
usually enables more productive discussions, because the "trend" as such
is much clearer.
As I've already said, I don't think this would entirely replace the
mailing list. But I'd like to see such a system in place as an
alternative to the mailing list for discussions. Perhaps the software
could be implemented such that all posts and replies on it would also be
sent to the mailing list in the appropriate format, so that people
reading the mailing list could still see what was going on.
Thoughts?
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Andrea Faulds
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