[mythtv] MythTV Forums

[Martin Thwaites]

One of the big advantages for me in forums is the fact that they allow it
to be more about "support".  As Stuart mentioned, moving things into
particular forums/sub-forums.  Allowing the "Organisation" of topics to be
done via the admins, rather than the users in their inbox.

In regards to not checking the forum... set up a subscription, then you'll
get an e-mail everytime a new post is done.


On 10 February 2014 16:20, Stuart Morgan <stuart at tase.co.uk> wrote:

> Stuart Morgan
> On Monday 10 Feb 2014 15:44:45  wrote:
> > FWIW, there are advantages too, some of which I've mentioned above.
> Others
> > include the possibility to properly moderate postings, removing spam and
> > moving threads to their correct forums. No wading through endless
> off-topic
> > threads as they'll be moved to the 'Off-topic' forum. No more double
> > posting, mis-formatted html emails or extremely long emails where no-one
> > has bothered to crop the previous email(s) to just the bits they are
> > responding too.
>
> Having noticed a couple of typos in that email only after posting, another
> advantage of forums comes to mind. The ability to edit your post to fix
> errors
> that were missed during proofreading*
>
> * The forum is configured not to allow users to edit their posts after
> someone
> has replied, to prevent people re-writing history.
>
> Also note, that I'm not coming down on one side of the argument or
> another. I
> like both mailing lists and forums. The topic was just taking a very
> one-sided
> point of view, with more prejudice being expressed than fact.
>
> P.S. If this thread were on the forum, the latter half would have already
> been
> split into the 'Off-topic' forum. This little sidestep into 'why I hate
> forums'
> is meaningless since no-one is forcing you to use the forum. If you want
> to go
> through the 'old man angry at the world' routine, please take it elsewhere.
>
> --
> Stuart Morgan
> MythTV
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