Quick poll on the Forums Importance to Ubuntu.

[Richard]

> Andrew Zajac wrote:
> 
>> On 6/3/06, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>>> There you go.  That's _exactly_ what's wrong with the forums.
>> There is a forum section devoted to discussion what's wrong with the
>> forums.
>>
>> Actually, there is an active discussion on that forums thread, so it's not
>> like you are not able to contribute - I think he just wants to avoid
>> fragmentation of the topic.
> 
> The problem is that those of us who most dislike web forums (that would be
> me, just in case you haven't guessed :-) ) aren't going to go to any web
> forum to tell them that.
> 
>> It must be a test to see how many people from other parts of the community
>> will chime in or something to that effect, since it can't possibly be a
>> fair assessment of the importance of the forums within the ubuntu
>> community - you'd need a third party to conduct such a survey, obviously.
> 
> You have a generous nature :-)  I usually assume that most people conducting
> a survey really don't have much of a clue about how to limit bias (the big
> exception being political polls, where you know they know all about that,
> but use it to the opposite purpose).

To tell you the truth, I don't like forums either....
direct email list is fine with me.

Rich