On 11 September 2013 17:00, Paul Taulborg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Clearly it is broken, which is why this topic and Wake Up are the most
> active this group has seen in the last year, in only a few hours of time.
>
I'm going to generalise a lot, and there are obviously exceptions, however
most of the users who are active in these threads are ones you don't see
generally posting on the list at all. I don't find it strange that everyone
rushing to contribute how wonderful a "forum" would be have not contributed
much to many other discussions here, while many of those who state they do
not see any benefit in a "forum" are mostly very regular contributors to
both the list and the language.
I get it, a lot of people feel the discussions here are inaccessible, and
these threads are "easy to contribute to". This is the internals list, and
I personally feel that the content _should_ be above that of a general
users list. A list about how PHP works / should work under the hood is akin
to a list about brain surgery on humans. I certainly wouldn't go to a brain
surgery list and expect to just jump into the discussions. However if I had
a well researched, well written and valid question, I'm sure I'd get a
response.
I'm not saying this list does not have it's problems. I don't think a
change in format will do anything positive for it though.