Hello Joseph, On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Nav Joseph <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you for being open to the idea of shifting to StackOverflow (SO). I > did a bit of searching, and was surprised to find that the idea was not new. > > > First, I found that SO already supports a feed. I clicked on this link > http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=openscenegraph&sort=newest > and Thunderbird (which I use instead of Outlook) opened up and showed me > all the new questions tagged with OpenSceneGraph in SO. > So you've already got your mailing-list-style option for questions. > I think you have misunderstood the idea. Art meant a gateway to allow people to use e-mail, not having to sign up for feeds and then go answer questions on a forum. That's a sure fire way how to achieve that nobody relevant would answer them, because most developers here use the mailing list and adding extra hoops to have to jump through is a bad idea if you want the answers. Also fractioning the community between multiple places is never good idea, the quality will suffer. That is why the current arrangement exists with a gateway between forum and mailing list - everyone can use the preferred way of working without splitting the community in two. The "conversion" of users to a forum is a non-starter, it has been discussed in depth in the past, feel free to search the archives for the reasoning why. I recognize that a lot of people prefer working with forums, but there is also a large community who prefers a mailing list, especially when working on multiple projects. It is easier and much faster to open a mailbox and "have the issues come to me" than to actively monitor and follow 2-3...10 different forums with different logins, rules, etc. to see whether there is a question or issue for me (e.g. VRML related in my case). RSS feeds or something like Twitter are not a replacement - I cannot hit "reply" on a feed and answer something, plus I would have to actively maintain the list of feeds *and* still need the forum logins on top. The reason why the forum rules are quite strict is because it is difficult to answer questions such as "Bump!" (common way on forums to keep the topic at the top of the current list) asked by *"*D4r|<|<1LL3r". Also spam bots target forums way more often than mailing lists, attempting to boost ranking of the spamvertised sites in Google. If you need a quick answer and you are not approved yet, it is faster to send an e-mail to the list instead - it could get you also approved faster. Best regards, Jan P.S.: This was send via the mailing list
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