Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-4.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Qi2up-0003Wb-QP for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:20:11 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.213.47 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.213.47; envelope-from=witchspace81@gmail.com; helo=mail-yw0-f47.google.com; Received: from mail-yw0-f47.google.com ([209.85.213.47]) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1Qi2up-0001nh-1M for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:20:11 +0000 Received: by ywa12 with SMTP id 12so1041743ywa.34 for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 04:20:05 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.63.10 with SMTP id l10mr170055yba.378.1310815205606; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 04:20:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.14.9 with HTTP; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 04:20:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <1310813679.2195.0.camel@Desktop666> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:20:05 +0000 Message-ID: From: John Smith To: Matt Corallo Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd39beeb2449a04a82df2f2 X-Spam-Score: -0.4 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (witchspace81[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record 0.1 FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT Envelope-from freemail username ends in digit (witchspace81[at]gmail.com) 1.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature 0.1 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-Headers-End: 1Qi2up-0001nh-1M Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] The forums... X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:20:11 -0000 --000e0cd39beeb2449a04a82df2f2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I know most of the people actively working on bitcoin (and active on this list) ignore the forums, for good reason. But there's a lot of people (everyone new?) that think the most active members of the forum have a major influence on the project's direction. Which is making us as developers look really bad. As if we're some political faction that wants to bring down world governments and unleash a global anarchistic doomsday scenario. It really needs to be more down-to-earth. Ideally, the forum would simply be a way to communicate with the *actual* users. For example, I use it for soliciting user feedback on UI features. JS --000e0cd39beeb2449a04a82df2f2 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I know most of the people actively working on bitcoin (and active on=20 this list) ignore the forums, for good reason. But there's a lot=20 of people (everyone new?) that think the most active members of the forum h= ave a major influence on the project's direction. Which is making us as= developers look really bad. As if we're some political faction that wa= nts to bring down world governments and unleash a global anarchistic doomsd= ay scenario.

It really needs to be more down-to-earth. Ideally, the forum would simp= ly be a way to communicate with the *actual* users. For example, I use it f= or soliciting user feedback on UI features.

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