Hi Ben, > El 9 feb 2020, a las 21:01, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> escribió: > > > This list is for people to *ask* questions about Pharo. Not to diffuse any > > kind of propaganda (pharo related or not). > > This list is not just for asking questions. There are plenty of [ANN] posts > advertising new libraries > and blogs articles. Following completion of the competition, the MIT > licensed code repository will be announced here. > Hopefully it may provide an engaging exercise for Pharo teachers to their > with their students.
I know, and I don’t mind announcements from time to time. But announcements are generally marked with [ANN], and are kind of self explanatory. The mail Richard sent is, and I’m sorry to be harsh, spam. > > I have the feeling this list has been lately flooded with such off-topic > > messages. > > Unfortunately the original post was quite bare and failed to show how it was > Pharo-topical. > So I can understand how it triggered you. I hope the additional background > info provided here alleviates some of your concern about it. Maybe. Maybe Richard could work his emails a bit more? I’ll quote his original email: > > El 8 feb 2020, a las 19:12, Richard Kenneth Eng <horrido.hobb...@gmail.com > > <mailto:horrido.hobb...@gmail.com>> escribió: > > > > Round 1 — #1 Leading Team: https://youtu.be/QWHeN5WXfBQ > > <https://youtu.be/QWHeN5WXfBQ> > > > > I'm actually quite amazed by their effort. They surpassed my expectations. > > > > At the risk of sounding immodest, I think this is a terrific way to promote > > Smalltalk (Pharo). I think the video is an absolute blast. > > > > Richard I particularly, who hasn’t followed the competition, am completely lost with this email. With the risk of sounding harsh, again, but trying to give some feedback Richard can work on: - The subject does not imply it is an announcement, nor what the results are related to or how they got there - For those that are not following this competition: what is this round 1? Are there many of them? What is this about? are there many teams? - There is no single link to the competition website, what this is about, whoever contributed to it... - Clicking on the link gives a video with a title that is as ambiguous as this email :( - I check the description of the video: what is there in the video? not clear. How will it appear in a youtube search in the future? At least it seems there are links to the website... Yet, Really? do I have to watch the video before I can know if this is interesting for me or not? :P Happily these points could be addressed in the future. > So with this additional perspective, may one post a week be allowed to share > the progress of the competition? Can the posts have better quality? :/ Still, I’d feel more confortable with an alternative, such as using discord. What about having a dedicated #jmrpc channel on discord where people could ask questions too? What about twitter? I havent seen this on twitter. Is it there? Now, I already spent too much on this :) Time to get back to something productive. Cheers, Guille
