Re: National Website in Japan (pressing for an action)

[Iain <iain ximian com>]

On 26 May 2001 12:09:23 -0700, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > That isnt the problem. In fact if gnotices fell down irrepairably it would be
> > a major plus point for the gnome project. Gnotices consists of nothing but
> > libel, defamation and actionable hate speech.
> 
> I'm inclined to agree. Theoretically I like the idea of having a place
> where people can discuss articles etc, but Gnotices is not that place.
> Pragmatically speaking it has turned into a place to troll, flame
> application developers, and drag people through the mud. We should
> evaluate gnotices based not on what it should be but on what it is. In
> that sense I would be very much in favour of shutting gnotices down, at
> least for a few months to see if we can bring it back "better".

Disable posting. Keep it around for the announcement/article aspect of
it, although maybe better define what should be posted there (An article
on XFCE where the interviewee says "Oh Nautilus exposed a bug in our
code" does not count as a worthy article to post IMO[1])

iain

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[1] Although I'm also of the opinion that "Random hackers birthdays"
isn't useful either, but that might just be me.