On 01.11.2008, at 18:17, Guilherme Blanco wrote:
The idea is awesome, but it'll definately not work. Sorry.
By creating an UG profile subscription will allow again everyone to
subscribe "a group" when it's really just one person that wants to
write something. So the UG idea will not work.
this was the potential abuse situation i mentioned. i honestly think
that most people will understand that people will not abuse this less
bureaucracy approach if we feel that it will benefit PHP. if this
fails, we can then decide on additional barriers, turing tests or
whatever.
also in response to Larry .. thats why I said we should also accept
"virtual UGs", so that things do not need to be linked to a geographic
location. for all we care, people can be members of how ever many UGs
they want to be in. again it comes down to the question of "can we
trust our community"? of course there will be abusers, but the
question is if they are sooo large in numbers that they will prevent
this from working?
how many UGs are we expecting anyways? lets say we get 100 UGs to
register. that would be quite an impressive number, but still
manageable. if we get to 500 UGs, we would probably have to rethink
the approach. like by seeing if we have mainly virtual or regional UGs
etc. i think we can also weed out some fake UGs by just looking at
their mailing list archives (no discussions means probably no UG). so
if we do end up with 500 UGs that register and that want to actively
take part in the discussion on internals, then i think this approach
has validates itself:
1) it means we have helped quite a lot of UGs to form
2) it means we have grown the number of people that want to participate
if this means we again have to review our discussion process, i am
more than happy to do so. until then i feel this process could help
get this list back to a more productive communication flow. it seems
to me like a lot of the screaming and even personal attacks are caused
by the fear that concerns might simply get lost in the noise. if we
can do something to get rid of this fear (though probably never
entirely), i think we have a chance of improving the general tone and
productivity of this list.
regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
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