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From: Matt Corallo <bitcoin-list@bluematt.me>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] The forums...
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 12:54:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1310813679.2195.0.camel@Desktop666> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJNQ0stPb+3yarKh4M+tFpjSaSG4-GrZX9AVFPh5q7+Ho_OJOA@mail.gmail.com>

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If we had the moding power, yes, but we don't have nearly enough people
who could mod such a forum.

Matt

On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 09:34 +0000, John Smith wrote:
> 
> I'm getting really, really annoyed by the forums.
> 
> Can we please please remove the link to them from bitcoin.org, and
> replace it with a forum that has but one goal: help users of bitcoin
> (and merchants, and developers)?
> 
> No speculation about economic or political futures, no philosophical
> pissing contests, no "I trust/distrust this/that exchange/company"
> FUD, no repeated discussion of things already answered in the FAQ,
> etc. 
> 
> There is a place for all of those, but not in the official forums of
> an open source project. IMO, if we link an official forum from
> bitcoin.org at all, it should be a neutral place for helping people
> adopt the technology (a bit like the Ubuntu forums, for example). 
> 
> Just my two bitcents...
> 
> JS

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-16 10:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-16  9:34 [Bitcoin-development] The forums John Smith
2011-07-16 10:54 ` Matt Corallo [this message]
2011-07-16 11:07   ` John Smith
2011-07-16 11:20     ` John Smith
2011-07-16 23:35       ` Jeff Garzik
2011-07-17  1:16         ` Douglas Huff
2011-07-17  2:00           ` Jeff Garzik
2011-07-17  2:12             ` Robert McKay
2011-07-17 10:46               ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-17 17:12                 ` Douglas Huff
2011-07-18  4:36                   ` John Smith
     [not found]               ` <CAJNQ0suMJAApg-fK70BBAHRT_41jc4-HMwxaHHccg0O+MOvV0A@mail.gmail.com>
2011-07-17 10:59                 ` John Smith
2011-07-17 12:30                   ` Luke-Jr
2011-07-18 20:08 Chris Acheson
2011-07-19  6:54 ` John Smith
2011-07-19 17:07 ` Chris Acheson
2011-08-12 17:32   ` Vladimir Marchenko

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