Off topic posts on sounder

[Sasha Tsykin]

Andrew Zajac wrote:
> 
> On 4/2/06, *Chanchao* <custom at freenet.de <mailto:custom at freenet.de>> wrote:
> 
>     On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 18:09 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
>      I CAN totally see why Jeff would raise an eyebrow
>     at some of the posts, but really whats needed then is to create a more
>     private list for people actually seriously involved with Ubuntu, plus
>     perhaps some VERY senior, serious users, etc, discussing the direction
>     of Ubuntu.  (I wouldn't expect to be invited to that one. :D
> 
>  
> The forums' community café section for community discussions faced the same 
> problems.  The "Backyard" section was created to host discussions which are 
> pretty much unrelated to ubuntu.  By default, the Backyard section is not 
> included in any forum searches by default and is not readable unless you are 
> logged in, but it is not by any means a private section.  It's just not the most 
> visible forum section.
>  
> It seems to work and the less politically-correct discussions that happen there 
> do not taint the reputation of the rest of the forums.
>  
> http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=11
> http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=121
> 
> I'm not really suggesting to create another mailing list - I'm just pimping the 
> forums...  The ubuntu comunity does need a place to be able to discuss 
> non-ubuntu related topics.
>  
I don't think there's any point in another list, because the same thing 
would happen. People should just be aware of the type of discussions 
that happen on sounder, and if they don't want to take part, don't take 
part.

Sasha