Re: [worldof]gnome forums
I can tell you from experience that this forum software can be very easy for boys to post to. It looks like Vanilla. I have been on a very well manned forum that got a bad spam infection, two of us spent days cleaning it up after we blocked the attack vector. Forums really need a lot of care, and boys are a lot faster than humans. Cheers, Dave. On Oct 18, 2013 11:40 PM, "Sriram Ramkrishna" wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Christian Schaller > wrote: > > Any explanation for why the forum is so unmaintained? I mean I am sure it > > would be possible to get community volunteers to help clean it up. > > > > Probably a lack of active volunteers. I didn't remember it being this > bad. It can work if we get a large enough volunteer pool who are > willing ot do spam filtering and also a better infrastructure. > > It isn't worth putting the effort unless we can at least get a minimal > of 5-6 volunteers to manage the forums. > > sri > > > > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Andrea Veri wrote: > >> > >> The worldofgnome.org's domain was renewed a few minutes ago and it > should > >> be live again soon. > >> > >> cheers, > >> > >> > >> 2013/10/15 Andrea Veri > >>> > >>> I was suggested to give [1] a try and honestly speaking it really looks > >>> like a good alternative to the current forums at worldofgnome.orgwith a > >>> big > >>> plus: the platform will be maintained by the GNOME Sysadmin Team and > >>> possibly by a team of moderators. > >>> > >>> As a note seems the worldofgnome.org's domain wasn't renewed in time > and > >>> the website went down, I'll try and poke Alex about that asap. > >>> > >>> cheers, > >>> > >>> [1] http://www.discourse.org/ > >>> > >>> > >>> 2013/10/14 Christian Persch > > Hi; > > we seem to promote forums.worldofgnome.org as our (semi?)official > forums: we link to it from the homepage of https://wiki.gnome.org/under > 'Communication', and also, more importantly, allow it to use the GNOME > logo. > > However, those forums are overrun with spam: > > - *All* of the 'popular tags' (as seen on the right hand sidebar on > the > forums) are spam words. > > - Looking at the list of all 'discussions' at > http://forums.worldofgnome.org/discussions shows that the content > itself is all spam, as well. > > So those forums are of no use to our users. Therefore, I think > we should remove the link from wiki.g.o to the forums, and we should > rethink their authorisation to use the GNOME logo. > > Regards, > Christian > ___ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Cheers, > >>> > >>> Andrea > >>> > >>> Debian Developer, > >>> Fedora / EPEL packager, > >>> GNOME Sysadmin, > >>> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman > >>> > >>> Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Andrea > >> > >> Debian Developer, > >> Fedora / EPEL packager, > >> GNOME Sysadmin, > >> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman > >> > >> Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av > >> > >> ___ > >> foundation-list mailing list > >> foundation-list@gnome.org > >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > >> > > > > > > ___ > > foundation-list mailing list > > foundation-list@gnome.org > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > > > ___ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: [worldof]gnome forums
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Christian Schaller wrote: > Any explanation for why the forum is so unmaintained? I mean I am sure it > would be possible to get community volunteers to help clean it up. > Probably a lack of active volunteers. I didn't remember it being this bad. It can work if we get a large enough volunteer pool who are willing ot do spam filtering and also a better infrastructure. It isn't worth putting the effort unless we can at least get a minimal of 5-6 volunteers to manage the forums. sri > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Andrea Veri wrote: >> >> The worldofgnome.org's domain was renewed a few minutes ago and it should >> be live again soon. >> >> cheers, >> >> >> 2013/10/15 Andrea Veri >>> >>> I was suggested to give [1] a try and honestly speaking it really looks >>> like a good alternative to the current forums at worldofgnome.org with a big >>> plus: the platform will be maintained by the GNOME Sysadmin Team and >>> possibly by a team of moderators. >>> >>> As a note seems the worldofgnome.org's domain wasn't renewed in time and >>> the website went down, I'll try and poke Alex about that asap. >>> >>> cheers, >>> >>> [1] http://www.discourse.org/ >>> >>> >>> 2013/10/14 Christian Persch Hi; we seem to promote forums.worldofgnome.org as our (semi?)official forums: we link to it from the homepage of https://wiki.gnome.org/ under 'Communication', and also, more importantly, allow it to use the GNOME logo. However, those forums are overrun with spam: - *All* of the 'popular tags' (as seen on the right hand sidebar on the forums) are spam words. - Looking at the list of all 'discussions' at http://forums.worldofgnome.org/discussions shows that the content itself is all spam, as well. So those forums are of no use to our users. Therefore, I think we should remove the link from wiki.g.o to the forums, and we should rethink their authorisation to use the GNOME logo. Regards, Christian ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Andrea >>> >>> Debian Developer, >>> Fedora / EPEL packager, >>> GNOME Sysadmin, >>> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman >>> >>> Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> >> Andrea >> >> Debian Developer, >> Fedora / EPEL packager, >> GNOME Sysadmin, >> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman >> >> Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av >> >> ___ >> foundation-list mailing list >> foundation-list@gnome.org >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list >> > > > ___ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: [worldof]gnome forums
Any explanation for why the forum is so unmaintained? I mean I am sure it would be possible to get community volunteers to help clean it up. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Andrea Veri wrote: > The worldofgnome.org's domain was renewed a few minutes ago and it should > be live again soon. > > cheers, > > > 2013/10/15 Andrea Veri > >> I was suggested to give [1] a try and honestly speaking it really looks >> like a good alternative to the current forums at worldofgnome.org with a >> big plus: the platform will be maintained by the GNOME Sysadmin Team and >> possibly by a team of moderators. >> >> As a note seems the worldofgnome.org's domain wasn't renewed in time and >> the website went down, I'll try and poke Alex about that asap. >> >> cheers, >> >> [1] http://www.discourse.org/ >> >> >> 2013/10/14 Christian Persch >> >>> Hi; >>> >>> we seem to promote forums.worldofgnome.org as our (semi?)official >>> forums: we link to it from the homepage of https://wiki.gnome.org/ under >>> 'Communication', and also, more importantly, allow it to use the GNOME >>> logo. >>> >>> However, those forums are overrun with spam: >>> >>> - *All* of the 'popular tags' (as seen on the right hand sidebar on the >>> forums) are spam words. >>> >>> - Looking at the list of all 'discussions' at >>> http://forums.worldofgnome.org/discussions shows that the content >>> itself is all spam, as well. >>> >>> So those forums are of no use to our users. Therefore, I think >>> we should remove the link from wiki.g.o to the forums, and we should >>> rethink their authorisation to use the GNOME logo. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Christian >>> ___ >>> foundation-list mailing list >>> foundation-list@gnome.org >>> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> >> Andrea >> >> Debian Developer, >> Fedora / EPEL packager, >> GNOME Sysadmin, >> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman >> >> Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av >> > > > > -- > Cheers, > > Andrea > > Debian Developer, > Fedora / EPEL packager, > GNOME Sysadmin, > GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman > > Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av > > ___ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > > ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
