I agree with you Terry. I don't feel the issue should be between too "techie" and too"laymanish". Those elements fit fine together. If I don't get it, I most likely will delete it. Something else will come along that I can grasp. I appreciate all aspects of both sides. The problem, as I see it, is the totally off-topic rhetoric that just doesn't belong here. Also, of course, civility should be insisted upon.
Dottie Glenn
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From: Terry Chamberlin
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: CS>List management
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 17:23:45 -0400 (EDT)
Mike,
Some comments and observations, designed to be helpful
and not critical.
I understand your motivation for attempting to curb
the depth of detail coming from some of the techies
on the list. But the problem, as I see it, with doing
that is that you cannot establish a clear definition
of what is too much technical detail and what isnt.
My description of how to make CS using a 12-volt wall
adapter is too technical for some, an insult to their
intelligence to others. If it was possible to poll all
list members, I believe you would find that there was
a broader consensus on what is rude and discourteous
than what is too technical. That is because
technical is defined by what the viewer already
knows, but rudeness and discourtesy is defined by
feelings that we all hold in common (pretty much).
Roger (or someone) had a good point that it didnt
seem fair that he was expected to use his delete
button to delete off-topic stuff, but others couldnt
be asked to do the same with technical posts.
A Techie List actually has the effect of splintering
the Community on a basis that is vague. Also, those
consigned to the Techie list probably will feel
rejected from the general Community.
If you lower the technical level to the point that a
brand new, uninitiated, mostly ignorant newbie feels
comfortable, the loss in knowledge would be
considerable. Plus, the techies will mostly just go
somewhere else (not the new Techie List).
In the same way that you must explain to each newbie
what the purposes and parameters of the Silver-List
are when they first subscribe, so you can explain that
there are several levels of knowledge and expertise
here, and that they should swallow the meat and spit
out the bones.
Finally, for a newbie to see discussion at a level too
far beyond them is to actually establish that this is
a good place with knowledgeable people to ask
questions of.
These are my thoughts.
Terry Chamberlin
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