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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@exmulti.com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] The forums...
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On Jul 16, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 7:20 AM, John Smith <witchspace81@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>> 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.
>>=20
>> 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.
>=20
> I agree completely.
>=20
> While the owner of the forums and bitcoin.org is Missing In Action and
> has not responded to emails in more than a week, we do have access to
> change the main www.bitcoin.org home page, to link to another forum.
>=20
> Or we could simply de-link the current forum, as a first step.

I say just kill the forum.bitcoin.org DNS entry along with it.

--=20
Douglas Huff


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