Thanks for the feedback Frederik, appreciate it.
I don't think it's entirely fair though. I certainly don't write every
day. Indeed I can write a lot as I'm quick on the keyboard, and I should
probably try to be more on the point, that's fair. I have a tendency to
get into sidetracks when talking about things that interest me, like
maps.
But if you look at it, it's a starter email, then it's just replies to
replies. I started two threads yesterday. Anyone is free to reply at the
speed they want. If replies come slower, my responses to them come
slower. If I have less time to reply a certain day, my replies come
slower, (I usually don't start threads busy days though). I don't
require people to reply fast, never had. It's a thread, people don't
need to dive into threads dealing in issues they are not interested in
if they don't want to. And I certainly don't think I win if people don't
reply, why would I do that? It's not really even about "winning" an
argument, I don't see it that way, it's about presenting a viewpoint and
the needs and argue for that and hopefully convince people that there is
a need somewhere. If someone doesn't reply I just read what their last
statement on the subject was. I don't invent new emails in my head that
say "I agree" :-).
But I'm not blind, I see it's not working out well, so regardless of
what I think is fair or not I need to change the style or just back off.
It's not that easy though when being passionate about a subject. Sorry
for that.
/Anders
On 2020-12-21 22:08, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Anders,
On 12/21/20 21:36, Anders Torger wrote:
Actually it seems to me that thinking about several tags at a time
seems
to be a fairly new concept ;-)
I think this is approximately your 15th message today on the tagging
list. Together, without quotes, you have written about 5,000 words of
original content.
Now, we are a community and your opinion is not worth more than that of
others on the list of course. The total number of regular contributors
on this list is perhaps around 20. If every one of these 20 wrote as
much as you do - as would be their right - we'd end up with about
100,000 words on tagging, every day.
The average reading speed of most adults is around 200 to 250 words per
minute (and that does not include spending time to actually think about
complex problems, just reading and understanding).
If every one of the 20 active contributors were writing as much as you
do, we'd each of us have to spend more than 6 hours reading this list
every day.
Even just what you wrote today takes 20 minutes out of the day of the
average reader (and again, this is only for reading, not for thinking
about the problem).
Please consider that many of us juggle many different responsibilities,
including work, family, or mapping.
The next time you make a point, or raise a topic for discussion:
1. Ask yourself if there's another big discussion currently ongoing. If
yes, maybe postpone the thing you want to discuss.
2. Ask yourself if you have already written more than 1000 words today.
If yes, maybe postpone your message.
3. If you have just started a topic and people are, slowly and as their
time permits, responsing to what you have written, resist the urge to
fire off an immediate reply to everyone who writes something. This is
not "Anders Torger versus the world". You can raise a topic, then you
should give everyone some time to think about it and say their opinion.
If you write so much that others stop replying, it doesn't mean you
won;
it means you have ruined the medium.
Bye
Frederik
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