From: Robert Klemme Date: 2004-09-07T16:05:09+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby-Nuby forum Hi Alexey, although I can understand your motivation, I'd vote against this. There is not too much traffic here that you won't be able to filter the interesting things out IMHO. Some other considerations: "Alexey Verkhovsky" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:1094428625.1000.44.camel@localhost.localdomain... > Dear fellow ruby-talkers, > > I�d like to put forward an idea to create a forum for newcomers to Ruby. > > There are: > * people who hesitate asking stupid questions on ruby-talk, Well, there are two options (a bit oversimplified): 1. There are only nubys in the new forum. In that case people might not hesistate to post but they might not get the best answers. 2. There are also those folks with quite some experience on the nuby forum. In that case, nubys might hesistate in the same way as they do now. So, what advantage would be there in splitting the community - which isn't too big at the moment? I personally believe that people should overcome their hesistations if they want something in return. IMHO it's a good training for life in general. Apart from that, I know forums that are far more hostile than ruby-talk/clr. > * people who don�t want to publish their email address for the spammers > to grab, It's easy and cheap to set up a second mail account that can be used for this. If you read via news, you'll even never need to access this mail account. > * people who don�t want to receive a hundred unrelated emails per day, Again, it's quite easy to filter when you read news. > * people who don�t grok the ruby-lang archives browser (which is cool, > but somewhat cryptic), Yes, definitely. :-) > * people who find that searches on ruby-lang archives produce a lot of > incomprehensible (for a nuby) information You can always use Google's group search as an alternative. > These are the people whose needs we want to address with the forum. > > The forum will have the following characteristics: > > - anonymous posting allowed (registration is possible, but not > necessary) > - full-featured search engine > - edit/delete message functionality Why would you want to modify messages after they were posted? That can lead to threads difficult to follow. > - moderation by active participants > - email notification for new messages in selected thread, and for the > creation of new threads > > The side benefit of this forum will be that its archives will contain > mostly beginner-level information, and therefore will be more useful to > the beginners than ruby-talk itself. Yeah, true. > Hosting and domain registration will be taken care of in the next couple > of weeks. So it's decided already? Kind regards robert