I shall endeavour to make my posts more meaningful, starting with [ANN]. My bad.
Guillermo Polito wrote > Hi Ben, > >> El 9 feb 2020, a las 21:01, Ben Coman < > btc@ > > escribió: >> >> > This list is for people to *ask* questions about Pharo. Not to diffuse >> any kind of propaganda (pharo related or not). >> >> This list is not just for asking questions. There are plenty of [ANN] >> posts advertising new libraries >> and blogs articles. Following completion of the competition, the MIT >> licensed code repository will be announced here. >> Hopefully it may provide an engaging exercise for Pharo teachers to their >> with their students. > > I know, and I don’t mind announcements from time to time. > But announcements are generally marked with [ANN], and are kind of self > explanatory. > The mail Richard sent is, and I’m sorry to be harsh, spam. > >> > I have the feeling this list has been lately flooded with such >> off-topic messages. >> >> Unfortunately the original post was quite bare and failed to show how it >> was Pharo-topical. >> So I can understand how it triggered you. I hope the additional >> background info provided here alleviates some of your concern about it. > > Maybe. Maybe Richard could work his emails a bit more? > > I’ll quote his original email: > >> > El 8 feb 2020, a las 19:12, Richard Kenneth Eng < > horrido.hobbies@ > <mailto: > horrido.hobbies@ > >> escribió: >> > >> > Round 1 — #1 Leading Team: https://youtu.be/QWHeN5WXfBQ >> <https://youtu.be/QWHeN5WXfBQ> >> > >> > I'm actually quite amazed by their effort. They surpassed my >> expectations. >> > >> > At the risk of sounding immodest, I think this is a terrific way to >> promote Smalltalk (Pharo). I think the video is an absolute blast. >> > >> > Richard > > I particularly, who hasn’t followed the competition, am completely lost > with this email. > With the risk of sounding harsh, again, but trying to give some feedback > Richard can work on: > - The subject does not imply it is an announcement, nor what the results > are related to or how they got there > - For those that are not following this competition: what is this round 1? > Are there many of them? What is this about? are there many teams? > - There is no single link to the competition website, what this is about, > whoever contributed to it... > - Clicking on the link gives a video with a title that is as ambiguous as > this email :( > - I check the description of the video: what is there in the video? not > clear. How will it appear in a youtube search in the future? > At least it seems there are links to the website... > Yet, Really? do I have to watch the video before I can know if this is > interesting for me or not? :P > > Happily these points could be addressed in the future. > >> So with this additional perspective, may one post a week be allowed to >> share the progress of the competition? > > Can the posts have better quality? :/ > > Still, I’d feel more confortable with an alternative, such as using > discord. > What about having a dedicated #jmrpc channel on discord where people could > ask questions too? > > What about twitter? I havent seen this on twitter. Is it there? > > Now, I already spent too much on this :) > Time to get back to something productive. > > Cheers, > Guille -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
