mgb_osg wrote: > > Except you can't edit it or create an account on it. > And the wiki link takes you to the front page of the site
Guys, please, don't go offtopic :) Yes, there is a wiki page, however a lot of new users, which are active on the ML or forum, doesn't read the wikis well as Gordon wrote already. What we need is a solution for that problem. I wouldn't like to cutoff forum, and I think also no of the ~300 users of the forum would also like to make so. Yes, signal to noise ratio on forums is more then on pure ML only. However, as some of you has already stated out, this is more or less a social problem then the engineering one. However, in order to make it better, we require some strict rules/filters etc for a proper etiquette. So, what forum moderators could do is to 1. filter out users, with non-appropriate real names - what do we meen by non appropriate names? Is only a first name already appropriate? How about users who would like to keep some kind of anonymization, by using only the first name. Are names with two letters ok, as used by our asian friends, i.e. Li, Xi, ... ? There was already a thread about that, but at the end there was no real, concrete answer to this! 2. Force to use some kind of template, when posting a reply or new topic. This is already in use and is sometimes used by the users. Template is set as default message, when posting something. So any user, who see this, should understand what is this good for. 3. Should user's reply always include a quote of the previous message? I do not really like such things, because they unnecessary pollute the threads. Yeah, there is even a pollution from some of the email clients there, which do quote the message in very strange manner. Which makes the reading very hard. So this is not only a problem of forum users. 4. Should users be forced to have a signature, which describes him/her somehow or just have some appropriate name in the signature. What about users which are using ML only and do not have signatures? Do we also exclude them from the community? And please guys, do also think about that not only forum users are responsible for bad etiquette in our community. What to do with such ML users? I agree with and understand Robert, however, Robert, you should also understand, that some of the things just cannot be solved in a programmer way. There are people who just not able to follow very simple rules and we shouldn't close our community also to them, I think ;) Cheers, art ------------------ Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=11542#11542 _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
