On 13 Jul 2005, at 9:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not a "lurker," I'm a "learner."
Hey David,
"Lurker" is not a pejorative term. Most of the subscribers to the list
are lurkers, and nobody ever said or implied that everyone who joins
the list is obliged to comment frequently, or that those who do not are
second-class citizens. That's not the issue here.
The *only* thing anyone ever objected to was one individual lurker who
decided to make his very first post to the list a lecture about what we
as a community should and shouldn't be talking about.
That kind of behavior would never be acceptable off-line -- it's
directly analogous to you joining a long-established social club
(imagine if we all lived in the same city and this were a Meetup group
devoted to bringing together local Finale users) and, the very first
time you open your mouth at a Meetup, you decide to tell everyone what
a terrible job they're doing running their Meetup group, and how they
ought to shut up about whatever it was they were talking about before
and talk only about what YOU want to talk about. (And then, not even
giving any suggestions about what specifically you would like to talk
about!)
Yes, I responded harshly to Ronald, but his reception here was quite a
bit *less* harsh than the reception he would have gotten in real life.
I try to treat people online at least as respectfully as I would if
they were in the same room with me, and I wish others would do the
same.
I have absolute no quarrel with lurkers. This is not a
lurker/non-lurker issue. It's about someone who decided to de-lurk by
saying something unbelievably rude and has yet to apologize to the
group.
- Darcy
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