As a newcomer (made two commits since October) who has been watching
this mailing list since then, I don't like the idea of a separate
channel for beginner questions. The volume in this mailing list is
fairly low, I can't see any legitimate reason for diverting a portion of
that into another channel, further reducing the volume in the existing
channel and perhaps not creating much volume in the new channel either.
Personally, I think a clearly written and easy to find community
guideline highlighting that this mailing list is suitable for beginner
questions, and give some suggestions/recommendations on when, where and
how to ask beginner questions would be more useful.
At the moment because the volume of beginner questions is very very low
in this mailing list, newcomers like me don't feel comfortable asking
questions here. That's not because there's 600 pair of eyes watching
this (TBH, if you didn't mention it, I wouldn't have noticed it), but
because the herd mentality. If not many questions are asked here, most
people won't start doing that. It's all about creating the environment
that makes people feel comfortable asking questions here.
On 08/11/2021 16:28, Benjamin Lerer wrote:
Hi everybody,
Aleksei Zotov mentioned to me that it was a bit intimidating for newcomers
to ask beginner questions in the cassandra-dev channel as it has over 600
followers and that we should probably have a specific channel for
newcomers.
This proposal makes total sense to me.
What is your opinion on this? Do you have any concerns about it?
Benjamin
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