Re: Newsgroup vs web forum

On 2007-12-01 02:01:38, Timo Pietilä <timo.pietila@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Pav Lucistnik wrote:

People, who prefer usenet, all stayed active on this newsgroup. The web
forums haven't harmed the activity on this group at all.

I have to disagree. What I'm seeing is that there are just few old ones
here and all new discussions are made in forum.

As hyperbole, fine. It is generally true that, other than intentional
announcements, topics are usually showing up only at one of the forums (ToME,
Fury, or Oook) or RGRA. I don't have a problem with that, as double-posting is
generally in bad taste.

It is pretty obvious that person that writes in forum doesn't write that
same here, so postings have dropped to at least half to what is used to
be. It does harm this newsgroup.

Concretely, I don't see a markedly lower post rate in RGRA from Oook forum (that
I would blame ToME forum for). I am seeing a quality separation -- RGRA is
attracting more techically literate posts, while Oook is attracting
less-experienced posts. I try to respect that when composing posts myself.

If anything, the technically literate post rate on RGRA has slightly increased.
And I certainly have seen a far lower rate of with no posts on RGRA after the
Oook forum, than before.
.

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