2011/9/7 Larry Gusaas <[email protected]>: > On 2011-09-06 8:04 PM Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 09/04/2011 02:23 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >>>> >>>> If you do not own the hardware, the domain name and the trademark, then >>>> you are operating at the pleasure of those who do own these things. That >>>> might feel like autonomy, but that is illusory. If you want to see what >>>> autonomy looks like, look at http://www.oooforum.org/ >>> >>> where sadly nothing happens for years until the one person able to do >>> anything significant finally decides to make a change..... I see, >>> therefore, far more spam and other things there than at the user forum. >>> Yet, years later, nothing has been done to improve things. >>> >> It looks like a very active forum, with many users and volunteers >> answering questions. >> >> And strangely I see Terry has an account there, with 554 posts: >> >> http://www.oooforum.org/forum/profile.phtml?mode=viewprofile&u=30585 >> >> Hagar has 5,171 posts there: >> >> http://www.oooforum.org/forum/profile.phtml?mode=viewprofile&u=24243 > > What is so strange about that? As has been mentioned before, the > http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php forum was started > because of many problems on http://www.oooforum.org/ > > Terry, and especially Hagar have continued to give support at the old forum, > although most of their posts were before the new forum was established. > >> And even you have 3,512 posts there: >> >> http://www.oooforum.org/forum/profile.phtml?mode=viewprofile&u=3905 > > Andrew is a very active member of that forum and also posts on the new > forum. > >> It couldn't have been all that bad if you spent so much time >> volunteering on those boards. > > Hagar and Terry knew the problems there because of all the time they spent > there. That is why a new forum was started. If you looked at the time period > they posted there rather than just the number of posts they made, that would > have been apparent to you. But that wouldn't have served your purpose in > making this post. > > By the way, what is the purpose of your post? How does it aid in the > migration of the forum to Apache? >
Indeed. I have 1743 posts on the old forums, but last one was on December 2007, /almost four years ago/: since then I only participated on the new forums. What's wrong with that? IMHO, out-of-context (and useless) "statistics" do not help on this discussion.
