apologize in advance if it has already been said.
I have been a Yahoo list member (that moniker ought to date me well)
for about 10 years now, and it has always struck me how inadequate
the lists are at developing a community. Lists are great for
announcements, but horrible for conversations. There is no permanence
to these lists; every conversation is a flash in the pan.
How many times does the same, or similar question get asked? Can you
research a topic on this list? What if you come in late, as I did?
Surf through thousands of posts most of which are of no interest to me?
This was the problem with the discdog lists on Yahoo. the list
functioned perfectly for announcements but was sorely lacking in
terms of building a community. The lack of permanence, I believe, is
the big shortcoming of these lists in developing a community. First
off there is the difficulty of finding information that is of
interest to you; drilling down into the thousands of messages with
different subjects is near impossible. Then there is the fact that
people can say anything they want and it is gone, never to be seen
again. This allows people to really act shitty towards eachother.
2 years ago i created http://k9disc.com (orignially a phpBB) as an
alternative to the lists. It was slow going at first, as none of the
discdogging heavy hitters hopped on the band wagon, and a bunch still
are not members, but it really picked up steam, and we now have 227
or so members and nearly 8000 posts. It has been an invaluable
resource for new discdog players across the world. Things are divided
up into topics, and while there are a lot of posts, at least you have
a topic that you can start your drilling in.
I am all for a bridging the gap with a good forum set up instead of
this list. I am sure I would participate more. I would also be able
to learn so much more.
Anybody know how to run scoop? Great program for communities, and it
totally could handle 1000 members.
Later,
Ron
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