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

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

Neill Cox wrote:
> Trouble is it's not OT as far as all of us are concerned.

Not 'all of us'!

And I clearly explained that OT refers to non-technical discussion. I am
not saying that it is not 'related' (which is very difficult to define).

> 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.

Personally, I do not need these tags either, but others indicated that
they would like it and I contributed my opinion.

> CHeers,
> Neill

cheers

> 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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