Re: debianuserforums.org - new debian support forum

[team@debianuserforums.org]

With respect Joey, that is rather a sweeping statement and you clearly  
haven't looked into the reasons/causes behind this.  The example  
thread you linked to was made early on by certain users.  The threads  
weren't locked or shut down or edited because we have a free speech  
and self moderation policy - something that forums.debian.net  
certainly does not have.  Tempers were high at the time and it's taken  
a while for things to calm down.  Now they have - you won't have seen  
many of those kind of threads in the last few days.

In fact if you had read a bit more you would have seen that we have  
appealed for calm already:  
http://www.debianuserforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=291

Please consider the facts that we have taken the time, effort and  
money to actually start a board, rather than simply, condemning us out  
of hand based on the actions of a handful of people in one or two  
threads.

On 03/01/11 15:53, Joey Hess wrote:
> Appears to be personality conflicts/politics.
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=60387
> http://www.debianuserforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=68
>
> It's unfortunate that Debian doesn't have an official forum curated by
> Debian. That's probably why whatever unfortunate stuff that goes on is
> going on.
>
> May want to think twice before linking to a site that contains this kind
> of thing:
>
> http://www.debianuserforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=144
>
> Recommendation: Either keep forums.debian.net, or if it has attracted a
> problem community, remove it and list only debianHELP and ask.debian.net,
> which both have structures to avoid this type of problem.