Why don't we start by lobbying The Foundry a bit harder to FINALLY
reconcile/sync mailing list and forum properly for starters to limit
ongoing fragmentation? Come on, it's 2016 and they just won another
sci-tech award, is it really that hard??
There are three main groups: user, python and dev, but thanks to the
forum we now have 6 instead of three groups to monitor - easy to lose
motivation to participate.
Personally I'm getting tired of jumping back and forth and wondering
which one to post a specific topic too. When questions are double posted
(and I can't blame people for doing so), which place to you answer them in?
Considering we used to have a great, focused user group years ago, I
really dislike the status quo and think it's a massive regression.
I also don't think the email configuration in the forum can be greatly
improved, e.g. the "from" field just says "no-repl-communitybot...". I
like seeing the author of a post in my inbox.
Since I'm posting this to the mailing list which is no longer official,
I am wondering if we should duplicate this thread on the forum to ensure
it gets the right exposure :-D ...
frank
On 1/03/16 8:13 am, Deke Kincaid wrote:
Wasn't there a stack exchange for Nuke which Hugh from Nvisible setup
5-6 years ago? I have a feeling it was discontinued because of not
enough use.
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Nathan Rusch
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thanks for the perspective Howard, and apologies for veering a bit
into curmudgeon territory with my response. The main point I was
trying to make is that I don't think the Nuke community is a great
fit for a StackExchange environment *precisely because* of the
high concentration of basic questions from new users. As you
mentioned, Stack* can be perceived as somewhat exclusionary toward
new users by discouraging them from asking questions that have
already been asked, which subsequently prevents them from really
getting involved in anything more than a passive capacity.
The fragmentation becomes problematic if people who can answer
questions aren't interested in keeping track of three different
communities all the time, and similarly, if the people who are
asking questions don't feel like posting them in three different
places (and monitoring them for answers). Generally, there are
quite a few people who can (and do) provide answers for the basic
stuff, but once the questions hit a certain technical threshold,
the only people who can answer them are Foundry employees (or
people who have already gotten answers from them). Thus, unless
some of the Foundry devs and/or support people take it upon
themselves to keep abreast of the StackExchange site as well, it
may go wanting for higher-level questions (and possibly users as a
consequence).
-Nathan
*From:* Howard Jones <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Thursday, February 25, 2016 2:36 PM
*To:* Nuke user discussion
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [Nuke-users] Nuke Stack Exchange Proposal
Personally I don't mind the dumb questions. I've done enough of
them myself but also I have noticed that this also helps develop a
new generation (I'm getting old) of users who have the confidence
to answer these questions.
I'm for this as it is a way to spread knowledge.
What I don't like about stackoverflow is when researching
something myself I often see people berated for their question in
which the berator could have answered in less time than it took to
er... berate them.
Also I have had to read all this to find out my question isn't
answered.
I'm all for quality questions and I'm for not fragmenting the
list, but I'm not for having a list that discourages newbies on
finding their feet in a forum.
I know I have sometimes given a short comment but it's not
something I'd mean to do.
I think quality answers are the key.
There, a reply of length that even Henrik might be proud of ;)
Howard
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