Re: [worldof]gnome forums

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Christian Schaller
<cschalle linuxrising org> wrote:
> Any explanation for why the forum is so unmaintained? I mean I am sure it
> would be possible to get community volunteers to help clean it up.

Probably a lack of active volunteers.  I didn't remember it being this
bad.  It can work if we get a large enough volunteer pool who are
willing ot do spam filtering and also a better infrastructure.

It isn't worth putting the effort unless we can at least get a minimal
of 5-6 volunteers to manage the forums.

sri

> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Andrea Veri <av gnome org> wrote:
> > The worldofgnome.org's domain was renewed a few minutes ago and it should
> > be live again soon.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> >
> > 2013/10/15 Andrea Veri <av gnome org>
> > > I was suggested to give [1] a try and honestly speaking it really looks
> > > like a good alternative to the current forums at worldofgnome.org with a big
> > > plus: the platform will be maintained by the GNOME Sysadmin Team and
> > > possibly by a team of moderators.
> > >
> > > As a note seems the worldofgnome.org's domain wasn't renewed in time and
> > > the website went down, I'll try and poke Alex about that asap.
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > >
> > > [1] http://www.discourse.org/
> > >
> > >
> > > 2013/10/14 Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>
> > > > Hi;
> > > >
> > > > we seem to promote forums.worldofgnome.org as our (semi?)official
> > > > forums: we link to it from the homepage of https://wiki.gnome.org/ under
> > > > 'Communication', and also, more importantly, allow it to use the GNOME
> > > > logo.
> > > >
> > > > However, those forums are overrun with spam:
> > > >
> > > > - *All* of the 'popular tags' (as seen on the right hand sidebar on the
> > > >   forums) are spam words.
> > > >
> > > > - Looking at the list of all 'discussions' at
> > > >   http://forums.worldofgnome.org/discussions shows that the content
> > > >   itself is all spam, as well.
> > > >
> > > > So those forums are of no use to our users. Therefore, I think
> > > > we should remove the link from wiki.g.o to the forums, and we should
> > > > rethink their authorisation to use the GNOME logo.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >         Christian
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> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Andrea
> > >
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> > > Fedora / EPEL packager,
> > > GNOME Sysadmin,
> > > GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
> > >
> > > Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Andrea
> >
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> >
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