Hi,
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Johannes Kastl wrote:
First of all, let me say that the discussion-wiki-page is quite
"ripping sentences from the context".
On 01/27/2006 08:59 PM Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
"unless such a forum is bi-directionally gated to e.g. this mailing-list, it
will only cause a split in the community"
What the one could have meant is that there is only a limited umber of
experts. And forum+mailinglist might be too much for this limited number.
Maybe he meant that.
"if there is a web forum and there is a very low concentration of "experts" in
there, what's the point of it ?"
If there is a mailing list, and there is a very low concentration of "experts"
on it, whats the point of it? I'm sorry, but I don't think this is something
that could qualify as a reason against a forum.
There are experts here, but will they move to the new forum? Or where
will the mods/admins/advanced user for the forum will come from?
"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.
Yeah, of course it is crucial. I guess this quote is quite a bit out
of the context. And it was more of a "when doing a forum may I remind
you of these tasks" then a " why not to do a forum".
What I meant was: You need people who get admins/mods/whatever. There
are a lot of people on the lists, and there might be enough around,
but you have to find them.
You can't create a forum simply by configuring the appropriate software
and (s)electing some fellows as moderators.
A good forum is a "side product" of good moderators.
This is a major difference between a forum and a mailing list.
So we should at this moment not create anything, but glue the existing.
Cheers -e
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Eberhard Moenkeberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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