Hi both,
J.P. Delport wrote: > > Maybe Art can make the forum to mailing list converter add the details > (that are normally displayed in the forum) to the bottom of the emails? > Would this have any benefit? > I do not know, what I should extra put in the mail sent from the forum. Most of the users has just only a username and a realname, nothing else. Usernames, are more or less useless. Realnames are used in the mail headers to specify the author name. So there is no extra information we can send from the forum to the mailing list. @Robert: I wonder how you would like to reduce the "signal to noise" ratio? Through the forum we get a lot of new users into the community. Hence in the last couple of months there were much more "real beginner" questions then before. There is almost nothing you can do about this. Pointing users everytime to read the tutorials before they post something, doesn't work! Excluding beginners from the community isn't that friendly! Hence I do not see any solution here, maybe you? OK, let us come down and think about solving that issue... I think, I could make our threats about breaking the rules comes to life and just suspend user accounts, that, where we think, their names are not appropriate for our community. If they change it, we (moderators/admins) could reenable them. They still will be able to read messages, however posting will be not permitted. Here I have a question: "Are just first names already appropriate for the community? Or should every user have first and last name specified?" However, you should understand, that it happens sometimes, that users change their names back to something cryptic, after they asked their questions. I have observed such behaviour couple of times. Hence if they post again something, the cryptic name will be used again. Here our filtering system wouldn't work. I could prevent users to change their realnames, so that they still fix. Every user will have to ask us (moderators/admins) to allow to change his/her name. Would this approach also be appropriate for us? cheers, art ------------------ Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=11455#11455 _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
