From: Nathan Olberding Date: 2006-05-04T05:03:04+09:00 Subject: Re: Re-post: Austin Ziegler wrote: > I do *not* think that it is sufficiently clear; someone noted that > they were surprised to learn that the forum was actually tied to a > mailing list *in this very thread*. That was me. After my first couple of posts, I thought it prudent to treat this forum like a mailing list. Everyone else seemed to. It would at least help somewhat if it was insinuated somewhere on the forum that this is cross-posted to a mailing list. > The web interface is reducing the quality of discussion dramatically, > and merely increasing the warning level is not going to help that. Help? Yes it would. Solve? Well... > The > style of discussion on fora is too radically different for the way > that ruby-talk is presented on ruby-forum. Something different needs > to be done, because what exists is detrimental to the community. Is it really detrimental? I think I see a little class separation going on here. I'm a newbie to Ruby. I'm not incompetent, but I do often ask question that "could be answered with a 3 second Google search"... if I only knew what on earth I was searching for. It may be obvious to one person, but otherworldly to someone who's just encountering a gotcha for the first time. I've really loved ruby-forum.com since I started using it. People are VERY friendly, understanding, patient, and have all the answers to all my questions. Excellent community, excellent dialog. I'm not sure it'd be a good idea, but to keep n00bz like me from drowning the pro discussions, maybe we should have a "basic Ruby concepts that even experienced developers from other languages might snag on" forum. 90% of my questions are in regards to Ruby's implementation of common features. I see a lot of people with similar questions. In any event, it's dangerous to have a web site with a forum labeled simply "Ruby." Everyone will flock to this :-) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.