HI Art, On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Art Tevs <[email protected]> wrote: > Couple of months ago as you told about cryptic names of the forum users, we > have introduced rules in our forum. I have also then informed users, that > they have to change there name first. Users has changed their names. > Even more I then took a look into almost every user's post to see, if he/she > is using a "valid" name. Almost everybody, no I think even every forum user, > which has send in the last months a post has used a non-cryptic, perfectly > valid name.
This effort is appreciated, but still forum posts are often distinctively impersonal. It's how we bridge that gap. > OK, part of this users do use only the first name, but wht is wrong with > that? Do you want to force users to use their frist and last name? Why if > somebody do just want to stay anonymous, for whatever reasons? I think we > should allow users to have some kind of free space. If they like to be > anonymous and hide them self behind the name e.g. "Lilli" why not? Or do you > want that they use "Lilli Li" (i.e. "Li" as last name)? The key is not about rights of forums users to remain "anonymous", the key is being able to track who's who in a big community. One might assume a online name that is a nick name or different from your real name, but it has to be something that is human enough that others can remember who said what and when. No post is in isolation, to be successful at support one has to me mindful of what peoples backgrounds are w.r.t OSG usage. I.e. what platform they are on, what compilers they are using, what previous problems that they've reported, what solution's they've put forward. You can't do support without this ability to match up different threads. > I admit, that the "signal to noise" ration on the quality of the posts from > the forum is just different then from the mailing list. As I stated before, > mailing lists is for "old school" developers/users. Sorry but this statement about "old school" is just plain obnoxious. Please refrain from using such bigoted none-sense on either the list or forum. The lower "signal to noise" ratio we are experiencing is with forum posts is not a good thing and it not acceptable long term. The bigger the community we have the more we have to strive to increase the "signal to noise" ratio to keep the noise to a tolerable level. Increasing community size and increasing noise at the same time is a huge step backwards and it simply not viable long term. We have to reverse the trend to lower single to noise ratio. This is not about new users requiring more support. This is a normal part of the community, throughout the history of the OSG it's been growing and introducing new users. What has made this possible is that we've able to condition the communication style so that it really about people interfacing with people at a personable level. I would like suggestions on how to turn things around, and start fixing things otherwise we'll need to cut the ties between the mailing list and forum. Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
