--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > she does > > nothing on this forum except reply to Other People's > > Posts and quote Other People's Ideas might do so by > > ...uh...posting something that was *not* a reply to > > someone else's post, and that displayed some original > > thought, thus demonstrating that she *does* have > > something to say. > > As I've already pointed out, it's absurd to suggest > that somehow a reply to someone else's post cannot > "display original thought." > > As you know, many of my replies do just that. And > most of them do not just "quote Other People's Ideas." > > I vastly prefer conversation to tooting my own horn. > Your mileage obviously varies. > > And don't get me started on what I think of the > quality of the "original thought" in your posts.
The notion that a new topic -- particularly if its of the self-indulgent meandering stream of consciousness variety -- is more insightful and original than a well reasoned and researched response to a posted idea* -- is odd, if not down right funny. Many new topics go unresponded to. Is that success: People getting so huddled in their own little worlds that they do not exchange ideas but simple spout their own "original native wisdom"? I find exchanges such as recent ones by Curtis and Marek highly original and insightful. I find some long monologues old and trite. A robust, growing, lively forum needs both: a new influx of ideas, and ii) a strong "digestion", debate, exchange, evaluation, critique, extension, and interconnection of such "new" topics. (BTW, is there really anything on this forum that is "new"?) The reason that I suggest a 10 post limit is that this creative exchange of insights on posted topics has been lost at FFL, IMO. People are reluctant to spend one of their limited posts to further some ideas along. The posting limit is a sledgehammer aimed at removing a thorn. Its the wrong tool. A five post limit on any one topic would do as much to squelch bickering and baiting as a daily limit of 5. Long live lively reasoned, polite, insightful, creative and original exchange of ideas and dialogue -- on old and new topics! ------------- * Of course there is the whipping a dead horse syndrome. Some topics are discussed, dissected way past thier "ripeness" and do become smelly maggot infested heaps. But there are vast periods of rippening of an idea that should not be discarded
