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On Mar 25, 10:04 am, Richard <de...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ed Prochak <edproc...@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > On Mar 24, 5:00 am, "Jeff P. Bailey" <nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >> The reason it seems crazy to me is that it costs you (in Thunder Bird at
> >> least) a single key-press to *ignore* a thread that you're not
> >> interested in - you don't need to reply to it, or even take any time
> >> seeing any more posts in the thread once you've ignored it. Making a
> >> series of "that's off topic" posts takes /much/ more time than just
> >> pressing the ignore key!
>
> > But if no one points out off topic posts, then they become more
> > frequent until the group loses its identity. There is no censorship in
> > unmoderated groups like this. Staying on-topic only happens when
> > people know what is on-topic. A certain amount of negative feedback
>
> Or when people simply say nothing when y question is not relevant to
> their area of expertise. The problem here is that Heathfield wants to
> limit it to HIS area of expertise.
No. You do not understand what can happen to a group if topicality is
broken.
>
> > helps. Discussions like this are on occasion necessary in healthy
> > groups.
>
> > Ed
>
> There has been enough of a groundswell of public opinion here recently
> which makes me think that topicality is indeed expanding in the C
> related areas. And this can only be a good thing - C is used in the real
> world and real world needs real solutions. Dont like the thread? Kill
> it.
Okay. make a cogent argument for discussing threading in this group.
Make an argument for why it is on topic here and not better in
comp.programming.threads. I haven't seen that argument yet. The only
this posted so far goes like this:
**Thread programming is part of many applications.
**many applications are programmed in C
**therefore thread programming is topical in comp.lang.c
Can you see that that is a poor argument?
In the presense of the comp.programming.threads group, the argument
must prove it is better to discuss it here than there.
The floor is yours.
Ed
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