I am approaching three years of activity in this forum. Certainly over this time the forum changed quite a bit. New people are coming in. “Oldtimers” are drifting out and you hardly see new activities from them. However, that is life as it is. Focuses of people are changing.
When I have started in forum Qt was owned by Nokia. Alexandra was the official contact point for this forum appointed by Nokia (or whatever the exact name of her employer was). Alexandra left and a next official maintainer (Marius, later Gurudutt) had been assigned. However, with the turbulence around the takeover of Digia as owner and this forum more changes came, apparently no real assignment of someone really responsible for the forum has been made.
Occasionally some “Trolls” are showing up in contributions. However, according to their statements they are answering only on topics when they are involved with their internal Digia assignments and have a good insight in the problem. In addition, they seem to do it (at least they state this) on a voluntary basis in their spare time.
It is certainly for Digia to set the priorities for the forum, but it is a bit a pity. The forum builds the reputation of Qt libs and tools and finally also of Digia. This somehow affects also people’s view of all commercial aspects in connection with Qt in my opinion.
I might be wrong, but in my opinion at least for a year the quality of the forum goes down the drain. Fellow moderators are posting only occasionally. If they read posts and act as moderators, I cannot and do not want to monitor.
However, taking the hall of fame lists on the entry page I am the only active moderator.
For the sake of the forum I appreciate the appointment of at least some more moderators. My proposal would be to add those having the status of a “Mad Scientist”, which has the same meaning as being in the list of the hall of fame based on yearly collected points. Certainly, those people have to agree to act also as a moderator.
I am going make this post sticky. And certainly I appreciate other views.
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