Re: Questions about the new GNOME Forums

[William Jon McCann <william jon mccann gmail com>]

Hi Karen,

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Karen Sandler <karen gnome org> wrote:

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I think newcomer users really expect to get information in the forum
format, so I think it could be very useful. I guess we'll see what happens
there in the meantime :)

But perhaps more will get information from google.

I think it is important to make high quality, trustworthy information available to search engines. It isn't clear to me at all that forums accomplish this without a *lot* of moderation. Which in itself can come across as heavy handed.

Availability of this kind of information starts a virtuous cycle. While disseminating lower quality information can easily create an overload that makes things hard to correct later.

Have we considered using something like Stack Exchange instead? Anyone have experience with it?

Thanks,
Jon