I can tell you from experience that this forum software can be very easy for boys to post to. It looks like Vanilla. I have been on a very well manned forum that got a bad spam infection, two of us spent days cleaning it up after we blocked the attack vector.
Forums really need a lot of care, and boys are a lot faster than humans.
Cheers,
Dave.
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
>>>
>>> Debian Developer,
>>> Fedora / EPEL packager,
>>> GNOME Sysadmin,
>>> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
>>>
>>> Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Andrea
>>
>> Debian Developer,
>> Fedora / EPEL packager,
>> GNOME Sysadmin,
>> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
>>
>> Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av
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