double posts are even worse for 'noise' On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Ralf Gill (healthAlliance) wrote:
> > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Bate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 9 March 2004 8:45 a.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio > > > > correct me if i'm wrong, but most of the noise i'm seeing today is in > > the form of complaints regarding noise. kind of ironic, right? > > Ironic, but that's the way one has to do it, when one is on a self > moderated list. We can't write to a moderator and have them step in, it's > something > that we have to ourselves. There's good and bad to a self moderated > list, but it's the way that 313 has been doing it for the last 10 years. > > > > > delete takes a second. let people say what they want to say. noise is > > an inherent part of any community, online or real life. > > At least for me, maybe I'm slower then some people, but delete's take more > then a second for me. When I'm presented with 50-100 messages and some of > them are good and some of them are bad, you have to go through the bad > ones to find out which are the good ones. That's why I think Phred > indicated > that he only reads emails from people's who he knows, as most of the time, > people aren't even talking about the subject that is on the subject line, > so you think you're reading about something that you're really not. I > kind of think of it as lurking SPAM. Noise is an inherent part of any > community, > I do agree, but we use filters to try to reduce that noise. The > particular filter on this list is "313", and that's how I have attempted > to reduce > the noise for non 313 stuff. Unfortunately, I don't see very much stuff > about Detroit Techno on this list... I know many people who have just left > the list and don't want to deal with it. I've been lurking on this list > since just after it started, when I was logging in with my 14.4 baud modem > on my Mac Plus ( I know, I was behind the times, even then!) and the signal > to noise ratio has never been so high as it has in the last year or two. > > > Also, using the 313 as a chat room, goes against 1 of few rules that we > have on here: > > * List members are here for a reason, keep your posts on topic, using 313 > as chat room is not permitted. > > > > > and here's my attempt to start a more interesting thread: > > > > lately i can't get enough of: _________ (theo parrish jill scott > > "slowly surely") > > > > Remember... please insert DETROIT related artist here ;) > > > > > Have a good DETROIT day to you all ... > > > Dave >
