Females in the community.

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 3/23/2016 3:53 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> On 23/03/2016 10:51, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>> OMG, this irrelevant, flamebait thread.
>>
>> One thing I like with Rust is that they have a modern forum software
>> (discourse.org) for their community forums, in particular one that
>> requires registration and an associated email (unlike newsgroups where
>> anyone can post and emails can be spoofed easily). Even though this
>> registration is easy, this seems to deter a lot of these random,
>> anonymous, quasi-troll accounts with not much to say. (I'm not talking
>> about karabuta specifically but other posters in general, in this thread
>> and other threads)
>>
>
> Ugh, I'm getting quite used to being able to correct spelling errors in my posts
> too, and I can't do it with the newsgroups.

No spelling checker seems to deter a lot of these random, anonymous, poor 
spellers :-)


> Newsgroups are like the C++ of forum technology...

Don't conflate the NNTP protocol with the shortcomings of whatever newsreader 
you're using. Mine, for example, does spell checking. (Thunderbird FWIW)