Re: Forum software

On Sep 11, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Levi Morrison <morrison.levi@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, I know those sites, but don't you think that internals is a different kind of a > discussion? First of all, the volume is different. We get two obvious trolls a day? Meh. On the > other hand, I could downvote a person that has a different opinion than I do. > > I think that it could be useful for the RFC process mainly. Sometimes someone will dominate a > discussion but if they are doing so against the popular opinion on an issue it would significantly > lower the impact of the dominator in a voting system. On the other hand, that could end up being tyranny of the majority. But I'm not a fan of forums, I think reddit-like systems are not good for the discussions of the like we have on internals (for the reasons I wrote before), and that's it :) If anyone likes and wants to set up the environment that wouldn't disrupt existing discussion patterns, who can stop him or her? :) --Leszek