I can tell you from experience that this forum software can be very easy for boys to post to. It looks like Vanilla. I have been on a very well manned forum that got a bad spam infection, two of us spent days cleaning it up after we blocked the attack vector.
Forums really need a lot of care, and boys are a lot faster than humans. Cheers, Dave. On Oct 18, 2013 11:40 PM, "Sriram Ramkrishna" <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Christian Schaller > <cscha...@linuxrising.org> wrote: > > Any explanation for why the forum is so unmaintained? I mean I am sure it > > would be possible to get community volunteers to help clean it up. > > > > Probably a lack of active volunteers. I didn't remember it being this > bad. It can work if we get a large enough volunteer pool who are > willing ot do spam filtering and also a better infrastructure. > > It isn't worth putting the effort unless we can at least get a minimal > of 5-6 volunteers to manage the forums. > > sri > > > > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Andrea Veri <a...@gnome.org> wrote: > >> > >> The worldofgnome.org's domain was renewed a few minutes ago and it > should > >> be live again soon. > >> > >> cheers, > >> > >> > >> 2013/10/15 Andrea Veri <a...@gnome.org> > >>> > >>> I was suggested to give [1] a try and honestly speaking it really looks > >>> like a good alternative to the current forums at worldofgnome.orgwith a > >>> big > >>> plus: the platform will be maintained by the GNOME Sysadmin Team and > >>> possibly by a team of moderators. > >>> > >>> As a note seems the worldofgnome.org's domain wasn't renewed in time > and > >>> the website went down, I'll try and poke Alex about that asap. > >>> > >>> cheers, > >>> > >>> [1] http://www.discourse.org/ > >>> > >>> > >>> 2013/10/14 Christian Persch <c...@gnome.org> > >>>> > >>>> Hi; > >>>> > >>>> we seem to promote forums.worldofgnome.org as our (semi?)official > >>>> forums: we link to it from the homepage of https://wiki.gnome.org/under > >>>> 'Communication', and also, more importantly, allow it to use the GNOME > >>>> logo. > >>>> > >>>> However, those forums are overrun with spam: > >>>> > >>>> - *All* of the 'popular tags' (as seen on the right hand sidebar on > the > >>>> forums) are spam words. > >>>> > >>>> - Looking at the list of all 'discussions' at > >>>> http://forums.worldofgnome.org/discussions shows that the content > >>>> itself is all spam, as well. > >>>> > >>>> So those forums are of no use to our users. Therefore, I think > >>>> we should remove the link from wiki.g.o to the forums, and we should > >>>> rethink their authorisation to use the GNOME logo. > >>>> > >>>> Regards, > >>>> Christian > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> foundation-list mailing list > >>>> foundation-list@gnome.org > >>>> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Cheers, > >>> > >>> Andrea > >>> > >>> Debian Developer, > >>> Fedora / EPEL packager, > >>> GNOME Sysadmin, > >>> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman > >>> > >>> Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Andrea > >> > >> Debian Developer, > >> Fedora / EPEL packager, > >> GNOME Sysadmin, > >> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman > >> > >> Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> foundation-list mailing list > >> foundation-list@gnome.org > >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-list mailing list > > foundation-list@gnome.org > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list >
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