Joseph M. Gaffney wrote: > Now, in regards to the wiki forum discussion results page, I have to > comment on a few things: > > "unless such a forum is bi-directionally gated to e.g. this > mailing-list, it will only cause a split in the community" > > How? The primary people who would be using the forums aren't on the > mailing list now, nor will they ever.
OK, fair enough. So you're for maintaining a split community? All can I say is then - if the existing webforum communities are working perfectly fine, is there really a need yet another one? (YAW ... not to be mistaken for a yawn). > They should be two different entities, with two different purposes. I'm listening. > "if there is no "moderation" or guidance, a forum wont work" > > I'm sorry... this one I just don't get at all. Of course there would > be administrators & moderators... its a crucial forum element. Just for my personal education - why is that? Most mailing lists do not need moderation; moderation tends to evolve. Does that not happen in webfora? I am genuinely interested in understanding this. > They also might only be interested in a subforum that has 5-10 posts > per day. Consider and compare the volume of this list to a few posts > in a subforum of interest, > that they can access, read, and leave at their liesure. Are you sure > an email client/mailing list is friendly by comparison? Yep. Try comparing participating in just 10 forums with 10 different user interfaces each on their own screen to participating in 10 mailing-lists with one user-interface on one screen. > Ok, I'm done again - sorry for all the long posts everyone :) I like your posting above - in a way I appreciate your argument to maintain multiple communities. If that is advantageous, given the different user-profiles, I for one don't see any advantage is creating an "official" opensuse forum. When the existing fora are catering to their matching user-profiles, what good would an "official" opensuse forum add? /Per Jessen, Zürich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
