On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As a forum moderator I concur. Having said that however, I believe its > important that new users are directed to the forums first so that the > MLs can be kept as clean as possible (moderating a ML is a different > kettle of fish from moderating a forum). +1 I'm not using IRC so I don't know how does it stack against ML and the forums in this regard. One can subscribe to just a couple forum threads or sections to keep the noise down. Such granularity is not available on the ML as there are just a few Arch ML lists although you can ignore / mute on a per-thread basis too.