📅 Original date posted:2014-10-22
📝 Original message:Take the discussion of this site to another M-L, please. It is off-topic.
Actual discussion of the paper and side-chains is on-topic.
This M-L is publicly archived.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Daniel Murrell <dsmurrell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry Bryan, this was the first paper posted to this list since I've
> been on it that I added to my site. I was quite excited about this.
>
> I was not planning on and certainly won't be making this advertisement
> after every paper posted on this list (I may do it on reddit). I did
> post on reddit a few times yes, but I assumed that this list's user
> base didn't overlap extremely (does it?). I'm not sure why my posts
> got down voted there. The down voters gave me no constructive feedback
> about the usefulness of my site, and neither have you.
>
> Are you able to give me your feedback on the site I've spent quite
> some time setting up privately so that we don't spam this list again?
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Daniel Murrell <dsmurrell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> p.s. I'm not trying to monetize this site. I just tried to make
>>> something I thought could be useful.
>>
>> [Unsolicited administrivia follows.]
>>
>> You have been posting this in a bunch of places for a while now, at
>> least three times today by my count on other mediums. I also observed
>> negative karma scores associated with these posts. Maybe you could
>> consider toning down the message frequency? I think by now everyone
>> knows you want them to use your site. I also think that in the limit
>> that it would be inappropriate for /everyone/ to post all possible
>> research sites, or even vaguely topical discussion sites, for every
>> paper posted. Personally, I would much rather have discussions happen
>> on the mailing list anyway, although if I had a different opinion I
>> certainly hope I would still send this message.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> - Bryan
>> http://heybryan.org/
>> 1 512 203 0507
>
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