[tor-bugs] #3592 [Website]: lack of web forums

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#3592: lack of web forums
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    Reporter:  cypherpunks  |       Owner:  phobos  
        Type:  defect       |      Status:  reopened
    Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:          
   Component:  Website      |     Version:          
  Resolution:               |    Keywords:          
      Parent:               |      Points:          
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Comment(by arma):

 Replying to [comment:30 atagar]:
 > > I think the latter could be dangerous though, since different pieces
 of the community will have different views of how the forums are being
 viewed.
 >
 > I don't follow. They're different frontends for the same thing. If it's
 email spam that you're worried about then we can either moderate
 subscriptions or disable the email -> posting functionality so it's just a
 notification feed.

 They're different frontends for the same thing, yes, but etiquette for
 mailing lists is fundamentally different from etiquette for forums. For
 example, posting a "me too" message on a forum thread is low overhead,
 since only people looking at the thread notice it at all, and it's easy to
 scroll past in your browser. But that same "me too" message is much more
 overhead for the mailing list model, since it's much more work to discover
 that the post has little content.

 Anyway, I don't mind if somebody tries to keep up with the forums via
 email. I think they'd be nuts to do so, and they will get frustrated and
 angry by what they perceive as repeated etiquette violations, but hey, to
 each their own. :) That said, I don't think we should encourage anybody
 who's on the fence to interact with the forum primarily via email, since
 they'll be setting themselves up for that frustration. Or said another
 way, you should not be thinking that you'll get core Tor developers to be
 forum participants simply by adding an email interface for it -- and it
 would be counterproductive to try to set them up that way.

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