[diversity-talk] Diversity for the tagging mailing list

[Clifford Snow]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:37 AM, John Packer <john.packer7 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Due to the growth of the community, usually there is a high traffic of
> emails of highly specific topics.
> I believe these qualities of diversity of topics and large quantity of
> messages are not a good fit with a mailing list, resulting in quite an
> unpleasant experience for subscribers.
> To worse the situation, it's hard if not impossible to comment in an
> ongoing mail thread if you are not already subscribed to the mailing list
> (i.e. people might not be able to comment in the few specific topics they
> are actually interested in).
>

I would encourage you to subscribe to the tagging list. I've been on it for
some time.  The list has it hot topics which for some months, like this
last December, generated a lot of traffic. Most months have a fair but not
unmanageable amount of traffic.

>
> The solution seems to be a move of the discussion of tag definition to a
> forum platform, which would be a more appropriate place due to the
> qualities described above.
>

Forms vs. mailing lists. Some people like one but not the other. Does
anyone like them both? Ideally we would have the best of both on some new
tool. But right now it seems to be one or the other. How about starting a
tagging forum to see if gets traction. I'm not sure who has admin rights to
create new forums, but the talk mailing list would be a good place to
start. (And I get the irony of my suggestion.)

>
> I think this is important for increasing diversity in the tagging mailing
> list, because few people can deal with a mailing list like that.
> How can we do this?


Can you explain how moving to a forum would increase diversity?

Thanks,
Clifford

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