Am 12.02.2014 10:47, schrieb Robert Osfield:
Hi All,
On 5 February 2014 18:56, Sebastian Messerschmidt
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I offered myself already. But unfortunately I still got no
introduction.
Personally I also think that additional moderators would be
appropriate.
I was hoping that the forum would be able to manage itself, which it
did for the first few years of it's existence, but if volunteers can't
volunteer to help them we obviously going to continue going downhill
on the forum support side.
Sebastian, did you specifically contact Art Tevs?
Yes, and he answerd on the 17th of September last year. He stated, that
he didn't have time to compose the email.
I can give it another shot, maybe he simply forgot to send it.
Also: I'm still volunteering :-)
As a wider issue, we keep bumping up against this moderator and
management issues with the forum, without Art being available. I
think we'll either need somehow to take over from Art who is really
active and will be active over the a good number of years in the
future, or move to a different type of forum that doesn't require the
maintenance overhead.
I guess, that most of the overhead is due to some people not following
basic forum rules, so we need to approve topics to keep the signal/noise
ration high.
Since all topics are sent to the mailing list as well, we simply need
some filtering (I have the feeling that forums tend to produce more
noise than mailing lists)
The osg-users mailing list that I've managed for decade now is very
low maintenance, it just works. We have occasional posts to the wrong
address and an rare bit of spam get through via a hijacked mail
account, but mostly it just ticks along by itself. So if users need
support without waiting for the forum just subscribe to osg-users, it
works.
We old-timers are used to mailing lists, and would also recommend the
mailing lists over the forum. Unfortunately most people stick to forums
instead of mailing lists, so we should not cut this end.
Longer term I think we probably need to move on from out current
forum/mailing list arrangement. I'm tempted by googlegroups for
simplicity of management. Suggestions are welcome.
I don't know if this would solve the "approval"-issues. I'd rather would
spent some time on filtering than on digging through a heap of
ill-formed questions/spam.
cheers
Sebastian
Robert.
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