+1 Already subscribed to the google-groups... > Fredrik Averpil <fredrik.aver...@gmail.com> hat am 5. Februar 2015 um 08:25 > geschrieben: > > So many have now commented on this so I don't know if another email just adds > to the spam factor or not... > > I also prefer mailing lists before forums. Because: > > - I subscribe to a number of mailing lists (I count 9 here now), which would > translate to a number of forums. I simply don't have the time to go into > multiple forum sites, dive into the topics and sub-topics – unless I have a > specific issue. > > What this means is I do visit forums, but not to contribute to a community or > answer someone's question, but to ask for help. > > With a mailing list. it is much easier for me to parse the constant flow of > topics as well as contribute, as I can scroll through subjects and pick the > ones that I find interesting. I read and sometimes comment, and in that sense > contributing to the community. Honestly, I learn tons from the mailing lists > I'm subscribed to since it's just so easy to take it in. > > Of course there are times when I won't have time to parse the steady flow of > mailing list topics. But I wouldn't have had time for forums either. > > Then I also use Stack Overflow. Which is nothing like a mailing list or a > forum, in its traditional sense. But it has interesting mechanics which I > think a support forum should have. Heck, Google is using Stack Overflow > instead of creating their own support forums. Take Google Compute Engine on > Stack Overflow for example. I got help directly from the developers on a few > things there. But it's designed to work only if you want to gain points by > answering questions or if you need to ask a question – or in that case, > because the company wanted to provide support. There's no friendly chitchat on > Stack Overflow, and there shouldn't be. It's not a community, it's a support > forum. > > I'm not opposed moving these lists to a forum, but I hope that it will offer > the possibility to act as a mailing list as well, or at least I will probably > just show up when I am facing a tricky issue that I need to solve. Which means > I'm going to treat it like Stack Overflow - or a support forum. Not a > community. > And if that is what is going to happen, I'm sure the ones thinking like me > will join in on a regular mailing list, complementing the forum. > > > > Regards, > Fredrik > > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >
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