[Python-ideas] Clearer communication

[David Mertz]

If any non-email system is adopted, it will exclude me, and probably many
other contributors to this list.  A mailing list is an appropriate and
useful format. "Discussion systems" are not.

On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 1:36 PM Abe Dillon <abedillon at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've pitched this before but gotten little feedback (especially positive
> feedback), but I think a Reddit-style forum would be a pretty vast
> improvement. We could easily start a python_ideas subreddit to try it out.
>
> I know the google group presents threaded conversations, but I've run into
> enough bugs trying to use that platform that I now only interact with
> python-ideas via my gmail account, and threads are flattened here. Also, a
> Reddit-style forum has voting built in. As a bonus, we can write moderation
> bots and present useful info in the side-bar.
>
> If people find Reddit distasteful or otherwise a bad idea, maybe we can
> find some forum software that replicates the feature set of Reddit and host
> it ourselves?
>
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 10:41 AM James Lu <jamtlu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A lot of the traffic on this email list is people saying “I don’t
>> understand” or “that’s not what I meant” or trying to re-explain. A lot of
>> “-1”s are really “I don’t see the usefulness of this”.
>>
>>
>> So I want an open discussion on: How can we communicate clearer?
>>
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