From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-05-04T06:33:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Re-post:

On May 3, 2006, at 1:03 PM, Nathan Olberding wrote:

> 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 don't believe anyone gets paid to respond to ruby-talk so increase  
in noise makes it much more likely that mails will be ignored.

> 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.

Subscribing to a mailing list takes work and causes you to get mail  
you might otherwise not want.  Posting on ruby-forum takes much less  
effort, you don't need to log in and it won't clog up your inbox.   
The difference between the two causes people who go the mailing list  
route to do a more exhaustive search.

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