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(I had posted this message on December 3rd, before Horse removed the moderation, so it
has been initially bounced. I repost it now, glad to see that in the meanwhile other suggestions came, and that there is a "You" out there.... -see below)
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Hi all,
could be I'm going to be the last poster to this foum. :-(
Jonathan is right. There must be a reason for this forum is "virtually
dead".
The moq Focus had the purpose to deepen and question a single point every
month. It has worked for many months, then probably it has suffered the lack
of conclusions (static latches). Not that MD is offering a lot of
conclusions, but, in the end, MF is just less "free" than MD: it is
moderated; the time that is necessary for a "question&answer" process is
pretty long; we should stick to the thread; sometimes we arrive at the end
of the month with a lot of arguments to close; sometimes, at the contrary,
the discussion is virtually concluded after one or two weeks ....
So, it would be good for the list to remove some of the rules, even if, on
the other hand, it would be a nonsense to open another unmoderated list,
exactly like MD. A "double forum" has a sense only if there are different
purposes. So, given that MD is thriving, let's try to imagine if there is
space for something else.
So, here is my suggestion:
Let's imagine you (if there's a You, outside there) have a particular thread
you want to suggest to be questioned, with the purpose to come to a
validated conclusion.
1) You have to search for other people interested to it (on MD, privately,
or.... )
2) When the number of interested people is enough (?) you will suggest the
topic and the group of people to the committee (the current moderators
team). They will possibly schedule the discussion for a date when all the
group of people has the possibility to participate.
3) The announce of the new discussion will be delivered on MD. The group of
people will be subscribed automatically to the list by the committee. Of
course, other people could freely subscribe.
4) You will begin the discussion with a short essay introducing the thread.
Since then, the discussion will begin unmoderated and will end when you will
decide that a conclusion has been reached.
5) Possibly, you will condense the initial essay, a digest of the posts and
the conclusion in a definitive essay to be published on the web site. This
is actually he great difference with MD: the possibility to come to a
positive conclusion (static latch).
6) After the end, the group will be unsubscribed by the committee. A new
discussion can be now scheduled.
In all that, the role of the committee should be to promote this kind of
discussions looking for good threads on MD, instead of controlling all the
single posts.
The advantage I see is that few discussions of Quality will start with a reasonable possibility to have an active participation...
Comments?
Marco
Jonathan wrote:
Actually, it might be more useful to discuss WHY this forum is virtually
dead while the unmoderated sister list is thriving - I believe that it has a
lot to do with the whole relationship between dynamic and static. I sort of
proposed this a discussion topic some months ago, but nobody picked up on
it.
IMHO, the division into two lists has been a failure.
I would prefer that we try and get back to a single forum, as the Lila Squad
once was.
Jonathan
Marco
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