On 08-Jan-2013, at 16:21, Caitlin Marinelli <[email protected]> wrote:
> For me, I guess, it's because I can't always meaningfully contribute. > Also the two or three times I have posted something - I've gotten no > response. I sent an article about strong women this morning for > example - and it didn't get a response. Someones post yesterday about > I'm afraid that gender anything at all is a topic that has been rather heavily discussed over the past several days because of that delhi rape incident. I see multiple threads going on about it on facebook even now. Silklist back in the day tended to have a lot of people with tastes that tended towards memes, charlie stross, neal stephenson etc. Today - there isn't much of that (which is probably a good thing). These days it is a much more diverse crowd. And I'm kind of afraid facebook has taken over a lot of the discussion silklist used to have (though, funnily enough, not the silklist facebook group, which is kind of moribund too). Right now - it serves as a sort of informal social networking sort of place to organize periodic meetups, and forward / comment on occasional articles. Far less traffic now than I remember 15 years ago.
