I'm in full support of this idea. In order to have more meaningful and on
topic discussions, we have to provide ourselves with the means and tools to
do so. I think having a forum would be excellent.
Matthieu Napoli also suggested Discourse (http://www.discourse.org/) from
the people at StackOverflow (which I'm sure we've all used).
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Andrea Faulds <[email protected]> wrote:
> As something of a response to "Wake up", perhaps some sort of "forum"
> system for discussion would beat the mailing list. We wouldn't eradicate
> the mailing list, but discussions could also take place there if people
> wished to.
>
> I'm thinking, in particular, of something à la Reddit.com or Hacker News,
> by which I mean has hierarchical replies with an upvote/downvote system.
> The first advantage of such a system over the current one is that it
> organises things so that you can see which post replied to which (aiding
> readability). This would mean that related things are visually grouped. It
> also allows you to express approval or disapproval of a post, so you can
> then have it automatically sort by approval, such that posts with the most
> "upvotes" float to the top. This is the second advantage, in that it shows
> which opinions are most favoured. This usually enables more productive
> discussions, because the "trend" as such is much clearer.
>
> As I've already said, I don't think this would entirely replace the
> mailing list. But I'd like to see such a system in place as an alternative
> to the mailing list for discussions. Perhaps the software could be
> implemented such that all posts and replies on it would also be sent to the
> mailing list in the appropriate format, so that people reading the mailing
> list could still see what was going on.
>
> Thoughts?
>
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