From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-05-29T18:17:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)

Chris Pine <glyconis@gmail.com> writes:

>> 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, I can't hear the weekly discussions about the disclaimer anymore.

> Chris
>

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