The description for Announcement says: “General announcements from openHAB maintainers”. Because of that I subscribed to this category. I like to stay up to date on new releases, patches etc.
Unfortunately subscribing to these posts means I also get notified when someone replies : “thank you, well done”. “I have an issue with this” , etc. etc.
This means these notifications on announcements for me do not serve their purpose, it is way more than " General announcements from openHAB maintainers".
As an example: although there have been 5 patch releases for 2.5 but the subject " openHAB 2.5.x Patch Releases" has 249 replies…
I would like it if these announcements are just that: announcements.
Am I the only one who looks at it like this?
Flag posts as off-topic to make moderators aware. We can move posts, warn and if necessary discipline users. But yes, we’ve got better hobbies than cleaning up after lazy posters.
You are raising a good point @dries_dokter.
It is actually possible to close topics, which avoids people commenting on it.
I’d suggest that all @maintainers that do announcements directly close the according topic in future - that makes a lot of sense to me. A suitable thread for discussions on it could be linked within such a post, if it is relevant for it.
I found a slightly better solution: I have reconfigured the “Announcement” category in a way that only maintainers have posting rights, while all others can only read. This way, there is no need to close topics at all.
