Quick poll on the Forums Importance to Ubuntu.

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Friday 02 June 2006 14:21, ubuntu-geek wrote:
> I am conducting a survey on how the community feels the importance of
> the forums are to Ubuntu. Anyone can vote at the following URL. I would
> like to ask everyone to take a second and vote to help with this data
> gathering process.
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=186797
>
> It's not my intention to start a thread on the mailing list as there is
> already a discussion going on the forums about this.
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
> ubuntu-geek

Ryan:

Given that the the Forum front page says that there are more than 1,100,000 
posts on the site, it seems pretty obvious that the Forum is important to 
many people. I'm not one of that group, however. (And I see that I'm not 
alone in feeling this way). I've always preferred mail lists -- less 
extraneous chatter, fewer "me too" messages, fewer ego trips (what's with 
those graphics?), less repetition, no spam, easier to search...

Case in point: When I first read your post last night, I thought it would be 
interesting to check out the forum discussion that you mention. I struck out 
-- where in hell is it? I looked in the Forum Discussion, the Fridge, the 
Backyard, the Jail, Official Announcements, and a couple of others. No soap. 
Nada. Nil. Nothing.

As either Casey Stengel or Yogi Berra once said, "Include me out".

-- cmg