Here, if a newcomer posts a basic question, many people will ignore
them, but the poster doesn't know that. Someone will post a solution,
or a link to one, and they will be on their way. On /r/elm, they see
their post sitting at 1,0 or -1 votes, and and up feeling like
newcomer questions aren't welcome, and are more likely to try to find
a tool with a more friendly community.
I’m planning to do a sticky post on /r/elm every week in the vein of
the Rust “easy questions” post. You’re right that this happens,
and this seems to be a nice way around it.
On 5 Jan 2017, at 18:18, Joey Eremondi wrote:
My main hesitation about reddit is that, even on the best-case subs
like
/r/rust, newcomer posts tends to get downvoted or ignored.
Here, if a newcomer posts a basic question, many people will ignore
them,
but the poster doesn't know that. Someone will post a solution, or a
link
to one, and they will be on their way. On /r/elm, they see their post
sitting at 1,0 or -1 votes, and and up feeling like newcomer questions
aren't welcome, and are more likely to try to find a tool with a more
friendly community.
My vote would be for Discourse or something similar. I think being
able to
sticky posts would remove a lot of the redundant messages we see on
this
list, and being able to sort by subject would make it easier for
people to
see what they're most interested in.
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 3:14 PM, 'Rupert Smith' via Elm Discuss <
elm-discuss@googlegroups.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at 7:00:34 PM UTC, Martin DeMello
wrote:
I'm a heavy reddit user, and I think it simply lacks the features
necessary to support mailing-list-style discussions:
You can't quote when replying.
I like newsgroups so much better then /r/elm. I like the old
fashioned
feel of them, the anarchic style, the freedom to be conversational or
express myself however I like within the confines of ASCII. There is
still
something of the old attitude of usenet alive in them that just seems
to be
lacking on the alternatives. I take great pride in quoting carefully,
replying to multiple questions with responses in-line underneath, not
top
posting and so on. In other words newsgroups or mailing lists take
bit of
work and manners to operate successfully and that all contributes to
making
a community.
A few thoughts for you:
Having a split community might actually be a good thing. For one,
there
are enough people interested that >1 splinter of this community is
alive
concurrently. That in itself is an achievement because something
needs to
reach a certain size for that to happen. Also it makes the community
as a
whole more resilient - if one splinter dies out, others may carry on.
Removing duplication is a good thing for code - but for community
growth
and engagement, perhaps it isn't.
So I'm just going to keep on posting here, because it is the best
place
for me and I've had plenty interesting and helpful responses.
Also, what about this:
http://elm-news.com/
Perfect for keeping up-to-date with multiple channels. All it needs
is
user accounts or to use local storage so it can keep track of what
you have
read or not.
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