Hello, On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 07:27:17AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > I think the primary use case of debian-user-offtopic would be to > have a place for people on debian-user to tell others to move > their threads.
It is technically feasible of course. That's not the bit I'd have doubts about. One of the common defences of the abundance of off-topic posting here is that with proper use of a mail client they are easy to ignore. I would also suggest that with proper use of a mail client one can set followups to another place, i.e. the off-topic place. In such a way, an experienced mail sender could diverge into off-topic land for one mail but the replies would come to the other place, for that audience. What I don't believe though, is there there is any will amongst the most prolific posters to do this. I think that they have decided they are entitled to post that stuff here and absent any actual enforced rule change they will not stop doing so. It sounds sensible and polite to move the conversation, *if* you believe that the conversation doesn't belong on debian-user. If you don't believe that then one person's "sensible and polite" becomes another's "unacceptably controlling and politically correct attempt to destroy the community", So I see a separate off-topic list as doomed to go the same way as the previous effort, because hardly anyone will use it. I see it as an easier task to get the support traffic off debian-user to a place where it can be handled alone, than it would be at this point to get the off-topic posts off of debian-user. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
