The person you are referring to was called ( if I remember correctly) Ben Rubinstein.
>From my iPhone > On 13 Oct 2013, at 12:16, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > > My memory of what happened is that someone posted their photo, followed by > others in a steady trickle. > > The point is not the photos: it's the OT. This is what happens on lists that > allow an OT thread to go too long. > > 1) Half the list really likes the particular thread > 2) The other half gets irritated and start to leave. > 3) The thread ends on its own and 25 people have left. > (as a bonus, new members get a very weird first message which often makes > them step back again). > > The next one annoys a different group so a different 25 leave. If the admin > tries to step in, they are told 'you allowed thread X' and pointless > arguments ensue. > > I was on the Nisus list in the 90s. It went down this path. It was a > fantastically helpful list that kept going OT. It was fun for a while but I > left when the current thread was about mediaeval bagpipes. > > So as it goes on, more people leave and the admin has to either moderate a > lot of people who are actually potentially good list members. The list > becomes bad-tempered because of the unpredictable nature of posts and admin > intervention. Experts leave because they get a very weird set of responses to > their help. I left LMUG because of this but didn't get unsubscribed for a day > or two (I told them exactly why I was leaving) and at that point I was 'the > last expert' because the others had already given up: there was a lot of > recrimination but - sadly - not enough to make the admin do their job. > > Added observations: the best lists I've ever known have an admin who tends to > step in after about 24-48 hours and call time on the thread. > > So that's what you'll get from me (along with roughly annual, and friendly, > clarifications like this one. It's not up for negotiation, unless someone > else wants to take over which I would be perfectly happy with. I think I must > be at something like ten years now (?). > > (I did once get someone who was interested but it came at a stupidly busy > time and when I got back to them, it looked like they had left! If it was > you, please get in touch;)) > > On 13 Oct 2013, at 8:27, Graham Perrin wrote: > > Glancing again at < > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/smug/KypceeuPNr4/phW1UWHFlrEJ> I assume > that we're not encouraged to (re)post photographs of ourselves or our pets. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
