Thank you Sébastien for standing up for users, for distinguishing between users and developers, and for recognizing that those two groups have different needs. May your Karma increase exponentially!
- Marc On Monday, July 1, 2024 at 8:18:36 AM UTC-5 Sébastien Labbé wrote: > I don't visit ask.sagemath.org much, so others who are regulars there may > correct me, but it seems that the whole downvoting/upvoting / karma / > accepting answers mechanism of this forum may have little value, as most > questions have 0 or 1 answers. So if that's lost in the migration, perhaps > not much is lost. > > > > > ask.sagemath.org receives questions and answers on a regular basis and > still today. Not later than last week, a user was happy for my answer : > https://ask.sagemath.org/question/77821/stanley-reisner-ideal-from-polytope/. > Also, I would say it is mainly a community of *users* of SageMath. > Questions are asked by users. But, also, the answers are given mostly by > users that are no so much developers. For instance Samuel Lelièvre, Karl > Crisman, Thierry Monteil, rburing are among those [ > https://ask.sagemath.org/users/] who have answered the most questions and > gathered more that 10000 points of Karma. I don't agree that this has > little value: I dare anyone here to reach this value! But you will not see > these top Karma users in the top committers of the git of sagemath. It is > just another way of investing the community. By answering questions on a > daily basis, Samuel, Karl and Thierry gathered through the years an > enormous experience of what a normal user of SageMath needs are, and what > improvements should be made to SageMath, etc. I have great respect for them > and for the time they and many others have spent on ask trying to provide > the best answers. I think moving ask to some website made for developers > (e.g. Github Discussion?) is very bad idea, because it will kill this > community of users which is still alive today. > > Sébastien > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/39be90ea-1c10-4f98-9940-3bb1b0b41ef9n%40googlegroups.com.
