Walter's Famous German Language Essentials Guide

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 05/06/2016 07:04 AM, Chris wrote:
> On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 10:46:22 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> We've had several remarks at DConf that the traffic on this forum
>> makes it intractable. There's good information, but it's drowned by
>> the immense off-topic discussions.
>>
>> We plan to create one more forum to address that, but one thing we
>> could all do to contribute is to refrain from continuing off-topic
>> comments, or at least mark them with [OT] in the title.
>
> That said, [OT] comments are also important in a community as they bring
> people together in a more casual way.
>

People may object to them, but really, I've BEEN involved in forums that 
tried hard to curb offtopic discussion because the higher-ups were so 
opposed to it, and what inevitably winds up happening is the entire 
forum/community as a whole just implodes and disappears entirely. I do 
NOT want to see D go down that route. Trust me, I've been there, I know, 
it's a mistake. It's a classic case of the cure being worse than the 
disease.