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

[Neill Cox]

Trouble is it's not OT as far as all of us are concerned.

I can live with [social] or [wet], but I'd rather just see clear thread
subjects.  That's usually enough to let me know if I'll be interested.

CHeers,
Neill

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal at eyal.emu.id.au>wrote:

> 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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