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if IRC were to be set up it would NOT be a help channel as we believe it would detract too greatly from the forum. irc logs would not be a suitable archive for information, and this site is designed for help, and as such has bult up a superb archive of information (that should be used more)
I dunno about that... You could always get the pearls of wisdom from the chat logs and post them here...
But the problem with people turning towards the chatroom is still there. We could make a non-support chat room. Just to get to know each other, relax, hang out... You know.
I think that would generally be a bad idea. For the same reasons as stated above.
We would be "chillin" and someone would pop in with a quick and dirty question. Someone would casually respond, and that would be it. No documented Q&A for others to read about.
I guess that you could offer it to the "contributing members" as I would assume that most of those are people who might just "chill" and not pop in and ask a quick question, like "How do I know which kernel I am booting" or something like that.
IMHO I think it would be better, if someone wants to chill, to maybe have an unofficial IRC channel setup or something like that.
Chat would greatly decrease amount of answered questions, since everyone always wan't to get a quick answer. But an irc channel like MasterC suggests it is a good idea. We should call it #linuxquestions
Hehehe... Sounds like you guys haven't been on IRC lately... The "ban and ask questions later" strategy that most chanops are using has left the IRC community paranoid and very sensitive to channel rules.
You could just put in a rule "this is not a support channel, ask your questions at http://www.linuxquestions.org/". Of course, you should also not name the channel "#linuxquestions", because that would be misleading, to say the least.
I think it's worth a shot... A pilot run... You never know, if we keep shoving ppl onto this web site, we could actually increase the userbase.
With regards to documenting Q&A, I wanted to suggest this a while ago, we should have a "faqomatic" system, which is world editable (or editable by a select group of editors) which would periodically review the site, and the IRC logs (a bot on the channel could keep extensive logs), thus creating a more organized knowledge base.
well i nkow *plenty* questions sites and i "hang" on them ansering questions loads. i'm just not gonna tell you were they are! :-P (if only so you can't ask me stuff i don't know!)
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