Will Briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:54:10 +1000:
> At the moment gentoo-dev is a "one big noisy room" forum. This is seen > as a "problem" > > Propose solutions have included: > > 1) The "Let's divide up the room" solution - (and so we have proposals > for gentoo-politics, gentoo-flamewar and other more "specialised" fora) > > [snip 2] > > The first doesn't work because it's well nigh impossible to enforce what > is on or off topic. Not really. Basically, once we have -politics or whatever, if anyone says it's OT for -dev, I don't see the point in arguing it further here, just post there. I've seen it work. With a bit of cooperation, once one respected regular (basically dev, for our purposes) says it goes to the other list/group/room/whatever, none of the regulars reply any further. The point is, once there's the other group/list to point to, it's not worth fighting over any longer, so even if a regular believes it actually /does/ belong in the "home" group/list, because there's another list/group and to maintain the common peace, that's it, it goes to the other list/group. Very very seldom is it actually worth breaking the common peace and fighting over, and when there /is/ discussion, when someone /does/ go beyond the norm, it's generally handled privately, person-to-person, because the cost of breaking rank publicly is chaos, which benefits no one of the regulars, only deliberate trolls. I'd really really like to have a go at it, to see if we /can/ make it work. I think we can, and /if/ we can, it's clearly a superior solution to forced moderation or other "forced" measures. Peer pressure /can/ work! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
