Hello all, The first thing I do when I get home from work is check my emails. I don't go to any social networking sites or forums. I'm a member of various forums but they have quite narrow subject ranges, and what I'm interested in today is not necessarily what I'm interested in tomorrow, not because I've necessarily lost interest but have shifted focus to another area.
Which is mainly programming at the moment - and actually the first site I visit is stackoverflow because I can see what's going on there while waiting for the slow webmail system to load. Aside from it being interesting for learning code, it's quite interesting to witness the behaviour there. It *is* a site for questions and answers about code, *not* for discussion about code. In some ways that is good, but in other ways not. Sometimes you get over zealous moderators (a moderator is anyone with enough reputation points) who close questions they believe are not proper questions. It can be quite frustrating to see people who are new to programming and/or don't have a strong grasp of English have their questions closed and probably end up turned off by the community. I'm finding that the reputation system there is an incentive to go back. I want to prove I have a certain level of knowledge - I'm not a professional coder but have been coding for years. You also get your sense of how good a coder you really are checked from the exposure to coders who severely know their stuff. I don't know if such a system could be transferred to new/media/net/art, and I wouldn't want it strictly limited to q&a. And it would be interesting to have some kind of reputation system based upon voting like *overflow.com (as opposed to forums where rep is based on post-count). But on the whole, I find it all to easy to get complacent about a social site, or just forget about them when I find something else interesting to look at. Which is why for me, emailing lists are the simplest sollution because everything is delivered onto your doorstep so to speak. James. On Wed, May 5, 2010 14:00, marc garrett wrote: > Hi Rob, > > I think building something like crabgrass which can sit on the same > server would be great. > > As you know, we put an awful lot of hours in many things here, the list, > the various platforms and much more... > > What I don't want is to build something with others and then finding out > that they really are not interested, this could be a problem. > > There are peers who I originally thought wanted something similar, then > realised after a while that they were not really that interested in > being a part of something collaborative or mutual, but more singular - > based around their own needs alone, rather than building something > special with others - shared. > > So, yes - but want to know what others are thinking as well :-) > > marc > > > > > On Wed, 05 May 2010 13:30:41 +0100, marc garrett > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The less time people spend in 'not' mutually working with others, and > >> building shared communities - the more of a threat it is for > >> neighbourhoods such as Netbehaviour, Furtherfield and other similar > >> groups/organisations/collectives. For the concept of having > 'everything' > > > >> built for you, which is what has been happeing - rather than getting > >> one's hands a bit messy, is another form of us being divided and > losing > >> power as individuals and collectives. > > > > Yes I agree with that very strongly. > > > > Would it be worth addressing this by the community helping to run a > > crabgrass (or something) installation on a Furtherfield subdomain? :-) > > > > - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
