Re: [OT, Meta] Benefits of the Lua mailing list

[Clinton Reese <clinton.bruce.reese.1975@...>]

On Friday, February 21, 2020, v <v19930312@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 17:10 -0300, Soni "They/Them" L. wrote:
> > What are some benefits of posting on the Lua mailing list instead of 
> > places like stackoverflow?
> > 
> > Some of the ones I can think of include:
> > 
> > - The Lua mailing list doesn't have advertisements, other than the 
> > occasional spam or self-promotion. Still, the Lua mailing list
> > doesn't 
> > have paid advertisement slots, "you get an ad every N emails" or any
> > of 
> > that. (at least as far as I can tell.)
> > - The Lua mailing list doesn't track you. Even if it does collect
> > your 
> > emails, it doesn't track your time spent reading or writing them or 
> > anything like that.
> > - The Lua mailing list doesn't try to gamify assistance. There's no 
> > incentive to farm any sort of points on the Lua mailing list.
> > - Email signatures.
> > 
> > What (else) brings you here?
> > 
>
> Fact that it is the correct place to report about bugs and discuss
> various aspects of Lua ecosystem. SO is not for this by design.
> -- 
> v <v19930312@gmail.com>

Yeah, I guess I owe the group and apology about my strsub() question. Maybe I should have re-read the Lua 5.3 manual if necessary instead of just doing a couple of Google searches and asking for help with a language feature.

Clint

Lua Newbie