Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
Now, in regards to the wiki forum discussion results page, I have to comment on a few things:
"unless such a forum is bi-directionally gated to e.g. this mailing-list, it will only cause a split in the community"
How? The primary people who would be using the forums aren't on the mailing list now, nor will they ever.
OK, fair enough. So you're for maintaining a split community? All can I say is then - if the existing webforum communities are working perfectly fine, is there really a need yet another one? (YAW ... not to be mistaken for a yawn).
They should be two different entities, with two different purposes.
I'm listening.
"if there is no "moderation" or guidance, a forum wont work"
I'm sorry... this one I just don't get at all. Of course there would be administrators & moderators... its a crucial forum element.
Just for my personal education - why is that? Most mailing lists do not need moderation; moderation tends to evolve. Does that not happen in webfora? I am genuinely interested in understanding this.
They also might only be interested in a subforum that has 5-10 posts per day. Consider and compare the volume of this list to a few posts in a subforum of interest, that they can access, read, and leave at their liesure. Are you sure an email client/mailing list is friendly by comparison?
Yep. Try comparing participating in just 10 forums with 10 different user interfaces each on their own screen to participating in 10 mailing-lists with one user-interface on one screen.
Ok, I'm done again - sorry for all the long posts everyone :)
I like your posting above - in a way I appreciate your argument to maintain multiple communities. If that is advantageous, given the different user-profiles, I for one don't see any advantage is creating an "official" opensuse forum. When the existing fora are catering to their matching user-profiles, what good would an "official" opensuse forum add? /Per Jessen, Zürich