Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

On 29 October 2010 07:53, Daniel Fischer wrote:

On Thursday 28 October 2010 22:44:04, Stephen Tetley wrote:

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On 28 October 2010 20:59, Don Stewart wrote:

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"Status of Infrastructure" questions like this are best asked on the Haskell Reddit.

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P.S. I encourage people to use the online forums: Haskell Reddit and Stack Overflow, as a lot of the question-answering activity has shifted there now, away from -cafe@

Err, Why?

Having to track three places for information rather than one doesn't seem like a good swap to me...

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+1; I see no need to sign up for a reddit account to ask a question there, etc. (and the few times I tried to use my OpenID account to answer questions on StackOverflow I couldn't quite work out what some of the options meant, etc.) IIUC, [one of] the prime motivating factor[s] behind both reddit and StackOverflow is the accumulation of "karma", which leads to people posting just to try and accumulate karma even if they don't know what they're talking about. Here, we are (hopefully) above such mundane things. Another point against reddit: Don posted a link to my survey on the naming of fgl a few months back. Someone then queried [1] the two naming choices that were available on reddit rather than reading the discussions that had already taken place here on -cafe or bothering to actually ask _me_. Similar things go with submitted blog posts: rather than discussing the content as comments on the blog post, they discuss them on reddit thus depriving readers of the post itself of what they think. [1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/cp50y/should_the_new_graph_library_... -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com