From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tilman Kranz Subject: Re: Web forums... Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:13:36 +0100 Message-ID: <43E73D70.60901@tk-sls.de> References: <1139079546.2791.42.camel@mindpipe> Reply-To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.tk-sls.de (linuxfoo.de [83.151.18.109]) by alsa.jcu.cz (ALSA's E-mail Delivery System) with ESMTP id 8F5861C1 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 13:13:44 +0100 (MET) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (p54AC6FE3.dip.t-dialin.net [84.172.111.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "sls.thelair", Issuer "Tilman Kranz" (verified OK)) by mail.tk-sls.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 436DA301B2 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 13:13:38 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <1139079546.2791.42.camel@mindpipe> Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Lee Revell wrote: > [...] > Of course ALSA development isn't moving to some lame web forum, and we > obviously don't have the bandwidth to follow 1000 hardware-specific > Linux user forums - can anything be done about this problem, other than > educating users that web forums are lame? > > Lee Well ... there is the ALSA-Wiki [1] but it is quite different in appearance and use from a webforum. I see two problems: 1. In my estimation it is part of the business model of some blacksheep webforums to attract users and keep them unclear about the reference sources of information. They finance their operation through "hits" / advertisement, and appropriate redirection is thus contradicting their intentions. I am far from generalizing this to all web forums. Some are good and consistent, some are unaware of the negative effect their operation might have[2]. 2. Many users prefer webforums because it is their style of communication to talk to "alike" users, i.e. users who are in similar situations, users who have no problem with discussing matters on the base of incomplete or diffuse data. They have the feeling that form and content in such forums bring them to results faster. Such a demand can not be accomodated easily. They, after all, might be correct. Greetings, Tilman [1] http://alsa.opensrc.org/ [2] The "negative effect" being, as you described it, the ALSA project missing valuable input. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642