On 04/08/2015 06:34 PM, Go Linux wrote:
>
> It bears little resemblance to the technical forums to which I have become
> accustomed.
>
*** Thank you. I really hope non-technical people will like it. I hate
technical discussions about computers. They suck, because they're
either dick-wagging contests or quickly fall far from the humans
supposedly benefiting from them. It's time for people to amplify their
minds, and not suffer the diktat of flat-ass belly-rounded specialists.

> Badges? Really?? Good grief!
>
*** That's a default feature of the system. It can be disabled. It
could also prove useful. It consists in specific requests against the
database. I have no opinion about them.

> Why can't we have a no-fills forum that isn't so cutsy, socially-tainted
> and icon-laden?
>
*** There's an option that is (allegedly) activated to enable
participation by email, and that's the principle feature I'm looking
forward to see working and working well.

> it seems to cater to a completely different crowd than the one populating
> this list.
>
*** Yes, I anticipate that the more successful we are, the less email
freaks will haunt the community--says an email freak. An important
point to keep in mind is that this system (supposedly) can function as a
mailing list, except you can opt-in (or out) or what you actually want
to receive in your inbox. Another advantage of the forum, and this one
in particular, is the ability to recompose topics so that conversation
becomes discussion, and discussion becomes documentation.

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hk

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