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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote: > On 18/11/2023 21:26, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote: >>> One of the *advantages* of forums is that there is no way to veer off >>> topic easily. >> >> Do you really believe discussions don't veer way off topic all the >> time on forums? You apparantly use the Raspberry Pi Forums so I >> can't follow that. >> > Not really. My first response to an issue I don't understand is to > google it. That often takes me to a forum, but I am not an active member > of any. In general that gets the answer I want, although in many cases > it's an answer that applied to a release ten years ago and not to the > current software and hardware. I'm often the same, but I find a result where someone asked exactly my question, then they start talking about something else in the third post, and then do I spend half an hour reading five pages of posts to see whether it went back on topic? Usually I word-search them for key phrases instead, but that isn't entirely reliable. I might later discover a link back to that same thread which I'd written off as useless and there was my answer all along. With RPi stuff I've usually been looking for rather obscure info about high-speed I/O and GPU programming, so maybe the threads I view are a slightly different crowd. >> Of course the discussions veer off exactly as easily on web forums, >> the only difference is that it's harder to read them when they do. >> Heavy moderation _might_ control it, but as unlike on Usenet the >> moderation usually happens after articles are posted, that requires >> moderators to jump in fast enough that things aren't already mixed >> up by the time they intervene. Anyway extra workload on moderators >> is hardly an *advantage*, and the OT discussions will always be >> attempted regardless of how poorly designed the platform is for >> displaying them. >> > Many of those fora carry advertising to pay for moderation. You get what > you pay for. That's a point, I usually assume they're all run by volunteers. The RPi forums seem like they would be an exception, yet at least the RPi engineers refer to posting there as entirely a spare-time activity. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _# | Note: I won't see posts made from Google Groups |
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