Jerry Clancy wrote:
I hesitate posting this lest it become the trigger for the very thing
I would like to stop. With over 45 years in data processing, mostly as
a OS developer, I am finding this gmane OpenOffice newsgroup one of
the most undisciplined I've run into in years. I just plowed through
159 posts of which I would say that perhaps a dozen or so were either
useful or on topic. The rest were rant on this religion vs. that
religion, word origins, Windows vs. Linux (or whatever), or totally
off topic in regards to what I thought was the purpose of this list,
namely to provide help to real or potential OpenOffice users. The
volume of these off-topic posts is astounding, the result of no
moderator as far as I can see. Most of the posters should have their
posts dropped with warnings to the poster to keep posts on topic.
What this results in is an inordinate number of posts, almost coming
in faster than they can be read, that make it difficult to identify
legitimate posts, and this in turn I suspect causes many folks to just
drop out. I'm considering it myself. There is too much flak to work
through to find the useful nuggets. The Open Office community is then
the loser because many of those folks, myself included, actually are
well-informed on many related subjects and happy to help. But not if I
have to wade through all this baggage to do so.
Seemingly lacking in self-moderation, this list is in desperate need
of a heavy-handed Moderator. Posters should be warned for
inappropriate postings and removed or blocked if they persist in
posting inappropriately. And a little ego depression, tolerance and
charity to all wouldn't hurt. Take the rants to appropriate blogs but
keep them out of here.
I also believe that the newsgroups should be broken into different,
functional groups (e.g., Base, Writer, etc.) to further focus them and
reduce the volume of reading for people only interested in one function.
Jerry
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I second that. I joined this list to learn more about OOo. But most of
the messages seem to have nothing to do with it.
-- Tim Deaton
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