On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:51:17PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > andreimpopescu@gmail.com (Andrei Popescu) writes: > > > IMHO forcing people to take off-topic discussions out of the forum > > (read Debian community) is not good. Debian is based on volunteers > > and for some contributors (yes, answering questions is also a way of > > contributing, so you - the DDs - don't have to do this here) the > > community might be the thing that keeps them here rather then some > > other project or FOSS in general. > > This ignores the repellent effect of allowing those rampant off-topic > threads to continue. There are an unknown number of possible > contributors that stay away precisely because of the noise level. And I proposed a solution too separate the noise from the usefull stuff. This way we can make everybody happy. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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