From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-2.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QiEOK-0001wc-P8 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:35:24 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from mail-iy0-f175.google.com ([209.85.210.175]) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1QiEOI-00031S-Ck for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:35:24 +0000 Received: by iyj12 with SMTP id 12so957304iyj.34 for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:35:17 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.123.206 with SMTP id q14mr4491158ibr.147.1310859317107; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:35:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.32.68 with HTTP; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:35:17 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [99.173.148.118] In-Reply-To: References: <1310813679.2195.0.camel@Desktop666> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:35:17 -0400 Message-ID: From: Jeff Garzik To: John Smith Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: 0.1 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. 0.1 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-Headers-End: 1QiEOI-00031S-Ck Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] The forums... X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:35:24 -0000 On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 7:20 AM, John Smith wrote: > I know most of the people actively working on bitcoin (and active on this > list) ignore the forums, for good reason. But there's a lot of people > (everyone new?) that think the most active members of the forum have a major > influence on the project's direction. Which is making us as developers look > really bad. As if we're some political faction that wants to bring down > world governments and unleash a global anarchistic doomsday scenario. > > It really needs to be more down-to-earth. Ideally, the forum would simply be > a way to communicate with the *actual* users. For example, I use it for > soliciting user feedback on UI features. I agree completely. While the owner of the forums and bitcoin.org is Missing In Action and has not responded to emails in more than a week, we do have access to change the main www.bitcoin.org home page, to link to another forum. Or we could simply de-link the current forum, as a first step. -- Jeff Garzik exMULTI, Inc. jgarzik@exmulti.com