Hello everyone, I would like to offer my opinion on this issue. My background is IT, and I have developed many enterprise communication systems for various organizations. As much as I hate email, I would have to admit that it is still a vital part of any communication system, at least as an option.
Thus, whatever platform you choose, I would strongly recommend that email notifications remain an optional feature. The ideal system will provide multiple communication methods, in order to reach/satisfy the largest potential audience. Additionally, as some of you have mentioned, managing nefarious activities will become increasingly difficult, as special interest groups get ever more sophisticated in information warfare. Techniques such as astroturphing are very real, and must be guarded against. If any of you would like more information on such, there is a nice intro here: http://www.foodrenegade.com/vaccines-pr-and-the-news-cycle/?mc_cid=403eeb7de9&mc_eid=a4b380d5c6 Be sure to watch the short TED talk on that page. So yea, good luck with all that Mike ;-) Of course it is up to all of us to help maintain the integrity of the discussions. Victor On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Neville <[email protected]> wrote: > My only concern would be, if this format changed to something else more > readily available or accessible or whatever, how accessible would it be to > having it "policed?" by "who knows who?" when it comes to content from > members? The last thing I want is to have more "gags" put on gags which > already exist in this up jump never come down world. > > It's really hard to find somewhere whereby people have a degree of freedom > of speech without being persecuted or threatened by mainstream stooges and > halfwits. > > Liability/censorship/spies/authority intervention and all that crap? > > I admit I'm naive when it comes to all that, I'm just a simpleton when it > comes to all that sort of thing. > > N. > > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:11:16 -0500 > > Subject: CS>A forum? > > > > David wrote: > > > I wouldn't touch Yahoo or Google forums with a bargepole. You would > > > always be at their mercy. > > > > Well, I'm glad to see I'm not totally alone in that opinion! <grin> >
