A new lame UI toolkit for D

[John Reimer]

Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote:
> John Reimer wrote:
> 
>> I'm not sure why Stewart suddenly felt obligated to post this.  This
>> isn't Usenet.  I saw no problems with your postings.
>>
>> It's strange to watch how people start making decisions about how the
>> newsgroup is to be run (for the most part, I haven't seen much of that
>> here over the years: people have been quite relaxed about the thing).
>> This newsgroup has no moderation or authority to control it, as far as I
>> see beyond the responses of the community itself.  Not to say that it
>> doesn't need such control, but that authority hasn't been given to
>> anybody here in particular, let alone Stewart.  So I suggest you not
>> worry about his post until some official word states that he is given a
>> special moderation task for this newsgroup (or the members start backing
>> up his request).
> 
> Perhaps you're more right than Stewart. We don't need strict moderation
> here, but still multiposting is something you probably want to avoid.
> It's a bit annoying to read exactly same comments from different persons
> on both .D and .D.announce. This simply wastes the potential power of
> the community and makes it slower to develop D.
> 
> Just my 2 cents.
> 


Granted.  And with more gentle comments like this, we get a good 
indication of what this community wants to see in the future for this 
newsgroup.  It's a little nicer than pouncing on new D users the very 
first post they make.  I figure it's a good thing to attract the D users 
that are coming into the community with contributions.

:D

-JJR