Timeline for Is there an official point of view towards leading people away from the site into "private" spaces?
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| Jan 5, 2015 at 13:41 | comment | added | 0xF2 | I generally agree all answers should be public and on-site. It simply has value for others, and leverages the "many eyeballs" to get to the right answer, faster. The only exception is when I need to provide commercial or "salesy" answers... I do not think those belong here, and the discussion may involve Canonical' (or the customer's) private info. | |
| Jan 3, 2015 at 16:10 | comment | added | RobotHumans | My suggestion for off-site wasn't isolation. IRC servers are public, recorded, and historically searchable. Taking someone to #Ubuntu on freenode wouldn't be isolationist at all. Taking it to gchat or an email exchange would be different. So, just don't read too much in to my answer. | |
| Jan 3, 2015 at 12:38 | comment | added | Abhimanyu | "Isolating someone into his or her personal atmosphere is on the contrary of what we're trying to do here." OP has well said it. As a community, this specific behaviour should be discouraged, if nothing else. | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 11:07 | comment | added | trlkly | There is a huge problem with taking things offsite. It means that we lack the tools to deal with the problem. Chat exists to give us those tools, and preventing people from inviting newbies to chat just serves to say "we don't want to help newbies." Sure, letting them have direct access might lead to spam, and so you'd want it to be invitation only, by people with a certain score. But there's no way someone like Fabby with over 2000 rep should be so limited. He has shown himself to be pretty dedicated. I think veterans overestimate how hard it is to get rep once an SE is established. | |
| Dec 29, 2014 at 23:17 | comment | added | Fabby | Yes, but extended chat is mostly needed with Rep 1 users (who I, with my lowly reputation, cannot invite into chat...) | |
| Dec 29, 2014 at 23:13 | comment | added | RobotHumans | Comments can really run on though, and there's nothing wrong with saying - Hey, why don't you hop on the Ubuntu IRC channel on xyz server so we can talk about this - without blowing up the comments. Grant I'ld only do that if I KNEW it wasn't going to be a 3 comment exchange. If it was going to go on and on - live chat is just easier. | |
| Dec 29, 2014 at 16:39 | vote | accept | Jacob Vlijm | ||
| Dec 29, 2014 at 11:10 | comment | added | Fabby | In some cases where you know the end-user isn't all that up-to-speed but willing enough, I sometimes wish I could just remote control them! ;-) Failing that, I use the following system: use comments, and ask the OP to delete his/her comments after incorporating them into the question and deleting mine myself into a (partial) answer as having a chat session with a rep 1 user is (wisely) not allowed on the site. (If you incorporate this into your answer and drop me a note @Fabby, I'll delete my comment) | |
| Dec 28, 2014 at 14:17 | history | answered | RobotHumans | CC BY-SA 3.0 |