From: Brian Wisti <brianwisti@...>
Date: 2004-09-09T13:33:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-Nuby forum


--- David Ross <drossruby@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> --- Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > There will be enough people monitoring the forum to
> > answer any simple
> > question.  Difficult ones -- the minority -- can be
> > relayed to ruby-talk
> > manually (by the person who wishes to answer), with
> > great ease and
> > purpose.  This is excatly what happens currently
> > with IRC; the forum
> > should be no different.
> 
> There is just warm feeling that comes from
> irc/webforms than there is from any mailing list. On
> web forums.. expect python trolls going "Ruby is
> dying" though :p
> 
> --David Ross

Which definitely suggests that some moderation may be in order, since
the readers of a newbie list may not be experienced enough to recognize
and discard trolls (or trollish statements made by otherwise warm and
snuggly members).

-- Brian Wisti

http://coolnamehere.com/