To Mark, in regards to ML vs web forum:

A mailing list is a de facto requirement for an open source project
(it is #2 on Karl Fogel's list of required tools in his excellent book
Producing Open Source Software[1]). All the major open source projects
I've worked on have used mailing lists as the main form of
communication. We want our communication means to be absolutely
ubiquitous, and the best way for that is to use email. I'm not a big
fan of web forums for this type of thing. A lot of the things on your
wish list below could be done with our current setup.

On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Mark Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you continue to grow it would be great to go to a web based list to allow
> other features like:
>
> a voting system so with busy threads you could go direct to the good posts
> instead of having to wade through the chit-chat or worse, incorrect
> information.

You can the busy threads based on how many messages are within them.
You an also run searches on MarkMail like
http://nupic.markmail.org/search/?q=spatial+pooler. This doesn't help
the misinformation issue, however, but we have to have some faith that
users will do more than just a cursory read.

> "sticky" posts in each area such as FAQ's, etc.

IMO, that's what wikis are for.

> Each posters experience level.

You can get an indication of this from MarkMail as well:
http://nupic.markmail.org/search/?q= (see lower left).

Regards,
---------
Matt Taylor
OS Community Flag-Bearer
Numenta

[1] http://producingoss.com/en/technical-infrastructure.html#tools-needed

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