FW: What's a "useful" mailing list contributor? (was Re: What's a "useful" relay?)
Wow. I offer to maintain a FAQ for small relays and in return I get this. Unsubscribed. On 3 Jan 2017, at 17:57, Rana <ranaventures@gmail.com <mailto:ranaventures@gmail.com> > wrote: @teor I hereby volunteer to maintain a FAQ for operators of small relays (or noob operators). Which means I would be watching this list, generating the Q&A and from time to time alerting this list to the appearance of new questions and answers, to allow knowledgeable people to do quality control. And/or inviting people to convert their answers on this list to the FAQ answers. This would relieve them from answering the same question over and over again and reduce the influx of questions from noobs (like myself J). I believe this would also strengthen the community and reduce the frustration of small relay operators and – who knows? – even lead to advancements in Tor design to make better use of them. I would appreciate that, but please learn some mailing list etiquette first. Otherwise, your contributions may be ignored by many people on the list. Some examples: * make sure each email adds something valuable to the conversation * structure your emails well: * learn how to bottom-post, even if your email client doesn't support it * learn how to quote others' emails to provide context to your response * try to write succinctly * keep the volume of your emails down: * write one response to a thread each day * search for similar threads before starting a new one * wait until an active thread is finished before starting a new one Caveat: I need someone (Tor project people) to create the Wiki on the site and let me admin it. Demonstrate you can do the things above, and I'll gladly set this up for you. T -- Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n xmpp: teor at torproject dot org _____
On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 07:09:27 +0200 "Rana" <ranaventures@gmail.com> wrote:
Wow. I offer to maintain a FAQ for small relays and in return I get this. Unsubscribed.
Those were all reasonable requests laid out in a clear and polite fashion. If you don't want to follow etiquette of a community, never listen and instead throw a tantrum at the earliest opportunity, I have to wonder how useful any "FAQ" would have been with a maintainer like that. IMO your decision is a good one, please don't consider to reverse it.
On 3 Jan 2017, at 17:57, Rana <ranaventures@gmail.com <mailto:ranaventures@gmail.com> > wrote:
@teor I hereby volunteer to maintain a FAQ for operators of small relays (or noob operators). Which means I would be watching this list, generating the Q&A and from time to time alerting this list to the appearance of new questions and answers, to allow knowledgeable people to do quality control. And/or inviting people to convert their answers on this list to the FAQ answers. This would relieve them from answering the same question over and over again and reduce the influx of questions from noobs (like myself J). I believe this would also strengthen the community and reduce the frustration of small relay operators and – who knows? – even lead to advancements in Tor design to make better use of them.
I would appreciate that, but please learn some mailing list etiquette first. Otherwise, your contributions may be ignored by many people on the list.
Some examples: * make sure each email adds something valuable to the conversation * structure your emails well: * learn how to bottom-post, even if your email client doesn't support it * learn how to quote others' emails to provide context to your response * try to write succinctly * keep the volume of your emails down: * write one response to a thread each day * search for similar threads before starting a new one * wait until an active thread is finished before starting a new one Caveat: I need someone (Tor project people) to create the Wiki on the site and let me admin it.
Demonstrate you can do the things above, and I'll gladly set this up for you.
T
-- Tim Wilson-Brown (teor)
teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n xmpp: teor at torproject dot org
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-- With respect, Roman
On 11.01.2017 06:30, Roman Mamedov wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 07:09:27 +0200 "Rana" <ranaventures@gmail.com> wrote:
Wow. I offer to maintain a FAQ for small relays and in return I get this. Unsubscribed.
Those were all reasonable requests laid out in a clear and polite fashion. If you don't want to follow etiquette of a community, never listen and instead throw a tantrum at the earliest opportunity, I have to wonder how useful any "FAQ" would have been with a maintainer like that. IMO your decision is a good one, please don't consider to reverse it.
Roman, you nailed it. The "September that never ended" is now well into its 24th year, but the refusal by some to adhere to netiquette that has proven to make mailing lists productive and worthwhile is still quite annoying to observe. -Ralph
On 11 January 2017 12:28:44 GMT+00:00, Ralph Seichter <tor-relays-ml@horus-it.de> wrote:
On 11.01.2017 06:30, Roman Mamedov wrote:
Roman, you nailed it. The "September that never ended" is now well into its 24th year,
Ralph You are showing your age....... +1 to Roman BTW Mick -- Sent from an untrusted mobile device. Email not signed.
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017, at 21:09, Rana wrote:
Wow. I offer to maintain a FAQ for small relays and in return I get this. Unsubscribed.
While the FAQ could have been useful, if being asked to learn how to post properly on a mailing list causes an instant flameout, I wonder whether the FAQ would have gone any further. Too bad, it could make for a useful resource, perhaps someone stable will volunteer?
I would support Rana's volunteer proposal as described, and growing integration, as being a beneficial contribution. Let us not forget, all begin as noobs to a norm, and full normalization may be chilling to diversity.
Tor could use an Eternal September. On 01/16/2017 10:11 PM, grarpamp wrote:
I would support Rana's volunteer proposal as described, and growing integration, as being a beneficial contribution. Let us not forget, all begin as noobs to a norm, and full normalization may be chilling to diversity.
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