Roland, There are people here who are in their 80s and 90s and who make most excellent reading.
Then there are others who have a story to tell and do so entertainingly. I like congratulating people publicly and privately when they have presented anything interesting. Anyone can copy and paste. Posting links is intellectual poverty - all it means is that one does not have anything to contribute. I will also point out when the facts are wrong - in the hope that people will learn from mistrakes. Thankfully Goanet has an abundance of people who will recognise and adapt to the facts. Unfortunately, there are people here who despite being repeatedly told their errors - are unable to accept or correct them. In fact, they insist on hanging on, repeating them over and over. For example, do Tiger's ring a bell? When this happens, the group is reduced to a source of entertainment rather than a source of knowledge. Mervyn ________________________________ From: Roland Francis <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 5:22 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Is This What Goanet Has Been Reduced To? I'm glad Cecil said it since many others including myself were thinking on the same lines but were reluctant to hurt Con Menezes' feelings. He is an octogenarian and due to that age, perhaps deserving of kid gloves. But there's always the risk that a direction such as his can gradually make Goanet irrelevant. It's not Con's fault. He started out with a couple of links per day and since the moderator was accommodating, the few posts became a deluge to a point that it was likely to put off any new reader and dilute the impact of more relevant, interesting or personal experience posts. It's too facile to say that if one wants, one need not read the post, just delete or skip over it. After some time, clutter can be off-putting and can prevent one from going to Goanet completely. It's not that Con Menezes has no story to tell. He writes well and has had a full life he can share with us. Also, he lives in Australia and can well fill the vacant Goanet role of a Goan writing from Australia giving us information of community activity there. But if he is allowed to get away with just pasting links ad nauseum, why should he take the trouble. Roland Francis Toronto.
