Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-10 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 10 Nov 2016, Owen Jacobson wrote: > On Nov 10, 2016, at 4:21 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Nov 2016, Aris Merchant wrote: > >> As a member of the aforementioned younger generation (You're not going > >> to get any more that that the difference is significant), I agree > >> about t

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-10 Thread Owen Jacobson
On Nov 10, 2016, at 4:21 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Fri, 4 Nov 2016, Aris Merchant wrote: >> As a member of the aforementioned younger generation (You're not going >> to get any more that that the difference is significant), I agree >> about the obsolescence of IRC. I'm anomalous among my generat

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-10 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 4 Nov 2016, Aris Merchant wrote: > As a member of the aforementioned younger generation (You're not going > to get any more that that the difference is significant), I agree > about the obsolescence of IRC. I'm anomalous among my generation in > that I still use email as my main mode of

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-10 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 4 Nov 2016, Aris Merchant wrote: > On Friday, November 4, 2016, Michael Brown wrote: > > On 5 November 2016 at 14:35, Aris Merchant > wrote: > I'm definitely in favor of this > Discord/Slack idea. I don't know about cost and effort, but for a >

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-05 Thread Alexis Hunt
On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 3:18 AM Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:24 PM, Michael Brown > wrote: > > Well it's not really more than that at this stage. :D Before getting into > > details perhaps we should find a different discussion forum rather

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-05 Thread Luis Ressel
On Fri, 4 Nov 2016 18:24:31 -0500 Nicholas Evans wrote: > 3) The /other/ discussion forum: IRC. We're still using IRC. I'm 24, > and the fact that I know what IRC is is an anomaly. We're not going > to bring any youngsters into the IRC fold, especially when much nicer > IRC-like solutions like Di

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-05 Thread Aris Merchant
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:24 PM, Michael Brown wrote: > Well it's not really more than that at this stage. :D Before getting into > details perhaps we should find a different discussion forum rather than > clogging agora-discussion? I could easily make an NPS Slack server... Sure. I was thinking o

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-04 Thread Michael Brown
Well it's not really more than that at this stage. :D Before getting into details perhaps we should find a different discussion forum rather than clogging agora-discussion? I could easily make an NPS Slack server... On 5 November 2016 at 15:30, Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> w

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-04 Thread Aris Merchant
On Friday, November 4, 2016, Michael Brown wrote: > > On 5 November 2016 at 14:35, Aris Merchant gmail.com > > > wrote: > >> I'm definitely in favor of this >> Discord/Slack idea. I don't know about cost and effort, but for a >> discussion forum? Go for it. Besides, it will simplify my plotting

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-04 Thread Aris Merchant
On Friday, November 4, 2016, Michael Brown wrote: > > On 5 November 2016 at 13:13, Owen Jacobson > wrote: > >> >> If you have ideas for founding rules that aren’t Suber’s, let me know at >> this address? >> > > Nothing terribly specific at this stage. I think perhaps something similar > to Blogn

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-04 Thread Michael Brown
On 5 November 2016 at 13:13, Owen Jacobson wrote: > > If you have ideas for founding rules that aren’t Suber’s, let me know at > this address? > Nothing terribly specific at this stage. I think perhaps something similar to Blognomic - or anything semi-imperial - might be better suited to the pul

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-04 Thread Michael Brown
On 5 November 2016 at 14:35, Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm definitely in favor of this > Discord/Slack idea. I don't know about cost and effort, but for a > discussion forum? Go for it. Besides, it will simplify my plotting > about the next generation of inter-no

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-04 Thread Aris Merchant
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Nicholas Evans wrote: > There's been some frustration voiced about the three mailing list system, > again. I say again because there was a plan to migrate the mailing lists to > a unified solution this summer, but it fell by the wayside as, presumably, > the mailing

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-04 Thread Owen Jacobson
I have a couple of other people on my end who were interested in a Github Nomic experiment earlier this year. I’ve reached out to them to see if they’re still interested; if they are, I’ll spin something up over the weekend. If you have ideas for founding rules that aren’t Suber’s, let me know a

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-04 Thread Michael Brown
Remember that Github also has built in wiki, issue system and web hosting (Jekyll powered -- so there's some automation potential) as well. So there is some flexibility in how you can manage discussions and game state. On 5 November 2016 at 13:02, Alexis Hunt wrote: > On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:0

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-04 Thread Alexis Hunt
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:00 PM Michael Brown wrote: > > On 5 November 2016 at 11:47, Owen Jacobson wrote: > > (Personally, I’d like to experiment with a Nomic executed through Github > pull requests.) > > > ^^^ This as well. The handful of Github nomics I have seen don't seem to > work very wel

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-04 Thread Michael Brown
On 5 November 2016 at 11:47, Owen Jacobson wrote: > (Personally, I’d like to experiment with a Nomic executed through Github > pull requests.) ^^^ This as well. The handful of Github nomics I have seen don't seem to work very well though, either because they don't get very many players and/or t

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-04 Thread Owen Jacobson
On Nov 4, 2016, at 9:47 PM, Owen Jacobson wrote: > Slack… isn’t open, which concerns me a lot. Right now they’re tolerant of > clients other than their own, so it’s technically possible to attach > archiving and to pull data from Slack, but the terms of service permit Slack > to revoke that pe

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-04 Thread Owen Jacobson
> On Nov 4, 2016, at 7:24 PM, Nicholas Evans wrote: > > There's been some frustration voiced about the three mailing list system, > again. I say again because there was a plan to migrate the mailing lists to a > unified solution this summer, but it fell by the wayside as, presumably, the > ma

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-04 Thread Michael Brown
3') Or a dedicated Agora Slack server with separate channels for OFF, BUS and DIS... On 5 November 2016 at 09:24, Nicholas Evans wrote: > There's been some frustration voiced about the three mailing list system, > again. I say again because there was a plan to migrate the mailing lists to > a un

DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-04 Thread Nicholas Evans
There's been some frustration voiced about the three mailing list system, again. I say again because there was a plan to migrate the mailing lists to a unified solution this summer, but it fell by the wayside as, presumably, the mailing list maintainer got busy. But now it's being brought up again.