Hello Jon, Thanks for getting back to me so soon.This is the thread at forums.debian.net announcing the new forum and it's intentions/founding principles: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=60387
This thread probably triggered it all: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=59842
This is the kind of thing that has further polarised the whole situation: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=60726
The main issue is that a muli-account troll was allowed to run riot on the board while decent users were given warnings for telling the truth:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=59990Mez and some of the rest of the staff have clearly taken the authoritarian approach. We're Debian users and supporters of GNU/Linux and the ideologies behind it - most of us are adults, so understandably this rubs us up the wrong way. We have voted with our feet and opted to create a new board. It's early days yet and we need all the help we can get - thus why I have asked that a link be put up on the main debian site.
We've accepted that arguing/reasoning with the .net administration is a losing battle, so we've decided to simply "vote with our feet" and would be much obliged for this if you could help us out with a link so that debian users can find us and have the choice between debianHELP, forums.debian.net and debianuserforums.org.
Many thanks in advance debianuserforums.org Administration Team Quoting Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>:
Hi, On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 02:31:12AM -0800, team@debianuserforums.org wrote:A new Debian support forum has been started. The forum began on 09/02/11. The forum is a "fork" of forums.debian.net and includes many of the core of experienced users from that site. We are not in any way affiliated with that site.I am curious as to why you have forked. Can you point me at an existing forum or mailing list thread of web page detailing the history? Many thanks -- Jon Dowland