Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:15:21 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors Message-ID: <20081215061521.GF5527@kokopelli.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20081213213446.K44622@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <18754.48923.616173.319215@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20081212205614.GB37185@kokopelli.hydra> <31371229120906@webmail12.yandex.ru> <87iqppdlzh.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20081213002037.F5665@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081213092104.GC39031@kokopelli.hydra> <20081213103054.B8893@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081213194302.GA51063@kokopelli.hydra> <20081213122621.001352ad@gom.home> <20081213213446.K44622@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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--wtjvnLv0o8UUzur2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 09:38:29PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >=20 > without moderation it's a mess. I've seen more mess in response to your entirely unwelcoming manner than ever in response to anything you call "off topic" in some of your examples. >=20 > It's nice people like to help other people, but it's bad it helps them on= =20 > that lists with OFF-TOPIC problems. That might be a valid concern if your notion of "off topic" didn't include things that pretty much everyone else seems to think is on topic enough to fit into this list. >=20 > i don't mean moderation like removing one opinions and not others. But=20 > removing off-topic messages, that are 95% now or more. 1. When moderation is increased, so too are false positives -- like removing statements of opinion that shouldn't be removed. 2. Your idea of "off topic" seems to include stuff relevant to FreeBSD. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Bjarne Stroustrup: "An ugly operation should have an ugly syntactic form." --wtjvnLv0o8UUzur2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAklF9fkACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKUHkACgw+DTIeajP2lLVAMfVdlH/ZZ2 zQcAn1vNOXmyGD6Om6HxSj4NKUrFwikz =feu8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wtjvnLv0o8UUzur2--
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