hi again helen, all. like any avenue designed 2 act as a public forum, there's many reasons y lists such as Syndicate evolve>progress>+ [ultimately] decline. in my opinion, Syndicate progressed thru all 3 stages + had its fair share of interesting content, engaging dialogue, empty arguments, considered replies, technical hitches, experimental form[attings], standard list displays, passionate users, power-egofied abusers, moderator/admin hassles, pr guff, power plays, extended debates, censorship wrangling etc. i [personally] found the list declined rapidly when encountering shifts towards media-replication that lead it to operate as a more closed arena [such as dealing with cross postings across various art lists at the time]: in particular i found 1 "owner" [essentially a moderator] espoused a lock-down approach [while trying to deal with wot they perceived as information overload] that essentially reduced the list 2 elitist, 1 sided monothreading. again, i'd like to stress here that this my only my personal recollection. the lifespan of such forums + how ppl perceive>deal with the waxing + waning of them is, overall, fascinating.
chunks, @netwurker [mez] On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Helen Sloan <he...@scansite.org> wrote: > Hi > > Netwurker - It would be great to find out more about your opinions. > > Alan – your practice is not miserable > > And I remember runme.org a little. > > My posts were just a little caution on causing potential for a community to > implode when there are enough sectors and people out there who would be glad > if that happened. Look at something like Republika and Big Society in UK. It > uses much of the language that has been used by net artists and theorists > over the last two decades and yet most likely has a very particular and > negative approach to self organised communities. In some ways it relates > to Marc’s previous post on Digital Surplus. I’ve not got time to write about > this now but was alluding to it last night rather badly... After my festival > finishes I’ll try to articulate better next week in a post if it is still > relevant. > > All best > Helen > > > > On 12/7/10 00:51, "mez breeze" <netwur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > hi helen, > > i'm not dismissing your comments at all, i'm simply responding directly to > simon. in terms of your opinion that my actions accelerated syndicate's > decline, I respectfully disagree. if you have any qs or would like my direct > opinion, pls don't hesitate to ask [here or back-channel]. > > chunks, > @netwurker > > In which case my own practices are probably miserable... > > > - Alan > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- Reality Engineer> Synthetic Environment Strategist> Game[r + ] Theorist. ::http://unhub.com/netwurker ::
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