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2009-05-27 , 14:56
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#103
Originally Posted by lemmyslender View Post
Shouldn't this be part of what the council is facilitating now? "Hopefully" seems to indicate that while you believe it should happen, you are not personally interested in making/helping it happen.
Yes, but a) the elections are still a long way away, b) I just came up with one potential problem in the way of it, c) account merging/SSO faces many similar issues. So, input welcome.

It seems to me (and apparently others) that most of the discussion happened outside of the forum. That seems to be a communication issue.
Thanks :-) Glad we can narrow it down to a communication issue. Now, to allay your fears, I'm not aware of much of any discussion on the ITT->tmo move on the mailing lists. Pointers to threads I missed would be greatly appreciated (I guess the maemo-community archives would be best).

As a new user who saw a brief mention or two of the upcoming elections, this (mass email) is exactly what I thought would happen. After all when I signed up, I elected to receive emails from administrators. How would that have been considered spam?
Sorry, I'm confused again. Is the issue communicating the election or communicating the tmo change? I think the strategies on communicating both are/should have been different:
  • Election: everyone who was eligible to vote was emailed directly a number of times. There were threads here. Perhaps more use of direct tools like email everyone at ITT should have been used, but getting input from people before the election is run is a nightmare. No-one cares about process until it's too late; and last time we wanted to change the rules to be more inclusive by running some referenda.
  • tmo change: since this has caused so much animosity and acrimony, in retrospect I wish we'd had the foresight to consider sending an email to the thousands of ITT account holders explaining the transition and what this would mean. However, no-one who commented on Reggie's announcement suggested that; and there wasn't really much reason to consider the change would be so... difficult.

Other forums I participate in also require you to view certain threads (announcements to the community) when logging in for the first time after the thread has been posted. It doesn't force you to read it, but you can't say you didn't see it.
Definitely something we should do for the next election. Not something I'm sure about for a sub-forum re-org. See, it's all about choosing the right tool for the job (previous job: communications editor - not every announcement gets spammed to the 3,000 people on site ;-))

I don't think that holds true at all. If it did, it would mean that the roughly half of Americans eligible to vote but didn't were happy with the former presidents policies (not that I want to start anything political)? I don't think that was the case. I do think that the silent majority usually feels their input won't make a difference, so why bother.
You've got a point. I hope you'll admit that it's more likely that people will write something to complain than write something to laud a change.
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