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This all sounds fair and reasoned out................what he said! rick walker On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Jeff Larson wrote: > > As a "manufacturer" I have mixed feelings about this. Almost all > products have a dedicated support forum of some kind. It is expected > by the users and it gives the manufacturer control over the content > so they can organize, edit, and possibly republish things in a different > form like, oh say a script library. > > But product forums do tend to become "walled gardens" without much > information exchange about other products which can be helpful. And > they tend to be focused on nuts and bolts rather how you might use > it to create something interesting. > > I'm happy that people seem to be interested in Mobius discussion. > Such discussions have been happening for the past six years over > on the zonemobius list, it wasn't until I tried to move everyone > to a forum that things started leaking over here. I'm not sure > what that means :) > > I obviously can't control where people post, but here are some > suggestions. > > If you have an "I'm a new user and I can't figure out where to plug > in the MIDI cable" kind of question, ask it on the forums since people > here are not likely to care. > > At the other end of the spectrum, power user questions like "how does > latency compensation effect the timing of adjacent function statements > in scripts" or "why do I have a syntax error on this line", or really > any kind of "why doesn't this work" question belongs in the forum since > no one else cares. > > But...things like "I wonder if Mobius can do X", or "check out this cool > technique" or "I published an interesting script", or really any kind > "hey look what I made!" post can certainly belong on LD as well as the > forums. > > Thanks, > Jeff >