16.06.2013 22:38, Moritz Bartl: > On 16.06.2013 21:33, Sebastian G. <bastik.tor> wrote: >>> It was decided that we have no resources to maintain our own Q&A, and >>> that having a third-party Q&A is better than none. I disagree, but >>> that's not the point. >> I'm not sure what you disagree with. >> That there are not enough resources? >> That it is better to have some Q&A than none? > > I don't think Tor should endorse any proprietary, commercial platforms. > Especially when they force us into a specific mode of operation. > > I would love to do user support more again, but I don't want to > participate in this. In my eyes, commercial services like SE are not > "better than nothing", they simply don't exist for me. I understand that > this is a somewhat radical view, but I've come a long way and this Q&A > discussion will not make me change. > > I don't think Tor should endorse a service that pushes you towards > logging in with Facebook or Google accounts. I don't think Tor should > endorse services that don't manage to get SSL working properly across > their sites. > > I don't think Tor should endorse a platform that pushes people towards > unified accounts across multiple sites. I understand that it is > beneficial to share reputation (which is btw one of the most important > areas of research), SE should at least make it possible to use different > nicknames across its sites. > > I don't think Tor should endorse a platform that logs IPs. Logging > should always be minimal. > > I don't think Tor should endorse a platform that we don't have an > automated backup of should it go away or we decide to move somewhere > else. There seems to be some limited manual export option, I have to > admit I did not look into it to closely. We also cannot migrate > users/reputation. > > I've contacted the author of Askbot some months ago to ask if he was > available for paid labor on Askbot. He is. We did not even try to > contact him again to ask if he was willing to volunteer for Tor, now > that it looks like there's no financial budget. We did not ask the > community if someone was willing to properly package Askbot and its > libraries. We did not reach out to ask if someone was willing to > maintain it for us. We did not collect issues that would need to be > fixed before we can use it. > >> Call me naive, but the same people will answer the questions regardless >> of the service that is used. > > At least for me, that is not the case. I will not participate on Stack > Exchange. >
I understand your points and your standpoint. Your contributions to Tor and its community appear valuable to me, so your voice is weighted higher than compared to a faceless, colorless user. Best, bastik _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
