On Jul 16, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 7:20 AM, John Smith wrote: >> I know most of the people actively working on bitcoin (and active on this >> list) ignore the forums, for good reason. But there's a lot of people >> (everyone new?) that think the most active members of the forum have a major >> influence on the project's direction. Which is making us as developers look >> really bad. As if we're some political faction that wants to bring down >> world governments and unleash a global anarchistic doomsday scenario. >> >> It really needs to be more down-to-earth. Ideally, the forum would simply be >> a way to communicate with the *actual* users. For example, I use it for >> soliciting user feedback on UI features. > > I agree completely. > > While the owner of the forums and bitcoin.org is Missing In Action and > has not responded to emails in more than a week, we do have access to > change the main www.bitcoin.org home page, to link to another forum. > > Or we could simply de-link the current forum, as a first step. I say just kill the forum.bitcoin.org DNS entry along with it. -- Douglas Huff