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Re: [lojban] Re: BPFK: Call for volunteers: discussion board setup

On Monday, December 23, 2002, at 02:15 PM, Jordan DeLong wrote:


On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 11:17:17AM -0600, Steven Belknap wrote:
There is information about the slashdot engine at
http://slashcode.com/. This would appear to meet the requirements for a
thread-oriented discussion engine.
[ I originally sent this to jboske, where Nick was wondering if it
would be better due to the insane volume there right now.  I could
stand a usenet thing, but I think most of these 'permanence' arguments
are bogus.  Mail is probably best---ya'll should just get better
clients if you don't have thread views. ]

I agree with you, but we were asked for suggestions.


Slashdot sucks.  Both the site and the message board program.
I don't know much about the actual code. The slashdot site has some interesting content I don't find elsewhere. slashdot.com seems quite stable.What is it that you don't like about the site?

If you want better organization I suggest that we use better Subject:
headings and that you get a mail client which can display things
in a threaded view (if you don't have one already).  Of course, a
few of these jboskepre use shitty clients (please upgrade or don't
use web-based shit) which don't send In-reply-to headers so some
messages won't properly thread (you are one of these people Nick ;) ).
This seems reasonable to me, but most posters will not bother to think much about the subject headings. Perhaps what is wanted is a moderated list. That can be a time sink for the moderator, though.

If you want more permanence I don't think a /. style thing will
really help either, because there'll be so many comments that the
amount of permanence is not going to matter (think the yahoogroups
archive, or (better) robin's indented-thread archive of the lojban-list
thing.  No one *ever* looks there before spewing to the lists).

Furthermore, a /. thing will require using a webbrowser for this
stuff, which sucks ass.

Ok I'm done now.  fa'o
If it was my decision, there would be one listserv for all things lojban. I don't see the point of splitting things up. I suggested the /. software because it seemed like an option that would meet the stated functional criteria.

-Steven