From: Tanner Burson <tanner.burson@...>
Date: 2005-05-24T00:17:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)

On 5/23/05, Chris Pine <glyconis@gmail.com> wrote:
> > My suggestion was to remove this "disclaimer", which serves no
> > positive purpose and is simply a gratuitous snub to frequent posters.
> 
> How about removing the stats entirely?
> 
> They certainly aren't improving the signal-to-noise ratio for me.
> Plus, there's a good segment of the population who don't appreciate
> these weekly posts:  when I asked how people would feel if I posted
> regularly offering help to nubies and pointing them to several good
> nuby resources (my tutorial among them), the response was sufficiently
> negative.  (In summary, the argument against was:  "This isn't the
> right place for that.")
> 
> I hardly think this is more helpful to the Ruby community.
> 
> How about moving the stats onto a website somewhere?
+1

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