On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:37:29 pm Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Matt Domsch wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Tom "spot" Callaway > >> > >> <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > On 04/15/2010 11:56 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: > >> >> We've got a group called "disabled_torrent" the rules for application > >> >> are "Do NOT apply for this group. It is a disabled group. Why > >> >> would you apply for this group?"... People have applied for this > >> >> group. > >> > > >> > I suspect most of those folks do not read English. > >> > >> or they're bot signups... > > > > FWIW, at least some of them were actual people who told me they weren't > > sure why they signed up for group X. Mind boggling :) > > It is probably a similar subset of the people who want install everything. > > When I went through the groups lists there were so many choices I just > decided to mass submit for some pages as it was easier to have someone > tell me "Hey you didn't want to do that." versus find out later I > needed to apply for a group if I wanted to do something. I am > guessing it is another example of the too many choices problem: while > some people can't make any decision from the multitude there are.. > some people have found it more useful to just choose everything to see > what happens. Maybe we need some kind of abstraction layer with a wizard, that asks some questions on where you would like to contribute. and recommends groups. i.e. im from brasil and want to translate i get offered the general translation group and the pt_BR one Dennis
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