On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:55 PM, David Greaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Neary wrote: >> >> I'm against counting IRC as an "activity" in maemo.org. In my >> experience, IRC is an inactivity. > > not sure if you're serious - but IMHO it's the most 'org'-ish part of > maemo.org > and makes the difference between a dry community and a human one.
Agreed. > It's also where I've had a lot of issues resolved (and hopefully resolved one > or > two for others). > > That's not to say it isn't full of idle banter and OT stuff too and it > certainly > requires a certain mindset... In fact, I'd argue the sign of an active and healthy community is how well people get along *not* discussing the stuff that's relevant. Anyway, I think IRC activity should be counted: it's easy to spam, of course, but to do it enough to affect your karma materially (using 0.002 points per line makes it fairly ineffective) you'd have to be awfully desparate. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.bleb.org/ _______________________________________________ maemo-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community
