[clug] An alternate place for longer, meandering threads?

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

I regularly see the [off topic] or [OT] tag used in forums. It is short
and clear. While each poster will need to make their own decision, if at
all, it surely should be used when the purpose of the post is to be
off topic (which I see as technical issues regarding linux and foss) as
some recent threads were.

This will give some people a guilt free license to discuss non technical
(but still related) issues, post "this may interest some" notes while
allowing each reader to make their own mind as to what they should open.

cheers

Alex Satrapa wrote:
> On 15/09/2009, at 08:58 , Conrad Canterford wrote:
> 
>> ... However, when the list suddenly grows to being nearly 50% of my
>> daily viewable email traffic (spam filters are a wonderful thing),
>> almost entirely in one thread which very quickly broke down into two
>> camps and just went in circles ...
> 
> 
> I wonder if people commenting on social aspects could be disciplined 
> enough to insert [social] into the subject?
> 
> Thus if you want to talk about something kinda related to Linux that is 
> more of social nature, just insert [social] into the subject. If you are 
> replying to a thread about Project Y and want to comment about how 
> Project Y has a higher proportion of 
> women/footballers/motorheads/other-non-stereotypical-linux-geek-population, 
> just stick "[social]" into the subject. Some of us already try to be 
> helpful by renaming a thread to "X (was Re: Y)".
> 
> The result would effectively be a separate list for longer meandering 
> threads without having a separate list for longer meandering threads...
> 
> Alex

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Eyal Lebedinsky	(eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)