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From: John Smith <witchspace81@gmail.com>
To: Douglas Huff <dhuff@jrbobdobbs.org>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] The forums...
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:36:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJNQ0ssAgx+FS_LZmEDRXsdKpC4M5xaegJh4+vGv0Au+Cmi6Dw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPiTikW=Chz-L2PYcfU-KrLLZRBhDvEiL6YDP276GnGir217+g@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Douglas Huff <dhuff@jrbobdobbs.org> wrote:

> On Jul 17, 2011 5:46 AM, "Matt Corallo" <bitcoin-list@bluematt.me> wrote:
> > Its not that people dislike the forums or dislike having the forums.
> Speak for yourself. I think they're a cesspool.


Yes they are. Which is why the current forums will be moved to another
domain. It grew into a monstrosity.

On the other hand, I do like forums in general.  It would be nice have an
official help forum dedicated to just the client software (and protocol) and
how to use/integrate/modify it.  It should come with a link to the FAQ
before posting.

Also, as a mailing list is (kind of) limited to text only, a forum makes it
easier to discuss graphical subjects such as UI.

Then again given the kind of people bitcoin seems to attract, it might be
unrealistic to think a normal forum can be maintained... On the other hand,
people that misbehave can then be sent to the bitcointalk forums :-)

JS

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-18  4:36 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
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 [this message]
     [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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