On 16.06.2013 21:33, Sebastian G. <bastik.tor> wrote: >> It was decided that we have no resources to maintain our own Q&A, and >> that having a third-party Q&A is better than none. I disagree, but >> that's not the point. > I'm not sure what you disagree with. > That there are not enough resources? > That it is better to have some Q&A than none?
I don't think Tor should endorse any proprietary, commercial platforms. Especially when they force us into a specific mode of operation. I would love to do user support more again, but I don't want to participate in this. In my eyes, commercial services like SE are not "better than nothing", they simply don't exist for me. I understand that this is a somewhat radical view, but I've come a long way and this Q&A discussion will not make me change. I don't think Tor should endorse a service that pushes you towards logging in with Facebook or Google accounts. I don't think Tor should endorse services that don't manage to get SSL working properly across their sites. I don't think Tor should endorse a platform that pushes people towards unified accounts across multiple sites. I understand that it is beneficial to share reputation (which is btw one of the most important areas of research), SE should at least make it possible to use different nicknames across its sites. I don't think Tor should endorse a platform that logs IPs. Logging should always be minimal. I don't think Tor should endorse a platform that we don't have an automated backup of should it go away or we decide to move somewhere else. There seems to be some limited manual export option, I have to admit I did not look into it to closely. We also cannot migrate users/reputation. I've contacted the author of Askbot some months ago to ask if he was available for paid labor on Askbot. He is. We did not even try to contact him again to ask if he was willing to volunteer for Tor, now that it looks like there's no financial budget. We did not ask the community if someone was willing to properly package Askbot and its libraries. We did not reach out to ask if someone was willing to maintain it for us. We did not collect issues that would need to be fixed before we can use it. > Call me naive, but the same people will answer the questions regardless > of the service that is used. At least for me, that is not the case. I will not participate on Stack Exchange. -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/ _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk