Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Brian, I for one appreciate exactly where you are coming from in running the LUG list. I believe you said there are about 1200 members, most of whom lurk and seldom post something. I have no way to know this, but I suspect many of them quickly discover the direction in which a thread is going and, as I have already been chastised for suggesting, just hit the delete button and move on to things that are more interesting, productive, and worthwhile -- and there are many of those things on this list. That said, I do think that if a doctoral candidate might want to do a thesis on the psychology of e-lists -- the LUG list would be a great place to start. ;-) Ted in Olalla - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Reid" <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 10:18 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: The loss of any member is a loss for us all > There are many different ways to run a mailing list. I have chosen in recent years to run this one by not trying very hard to steer topics or correct misbehavior. About once a month I feel the need to terminate a topic, and every couple of years I eject a person. Mostly I just let it simmer, like soup. > > Every online community will form a core group who are comfortable with the way that community is run. The fundamental lawlessness of the LUG has produced a core group who are a bit too much on the nasty and judgmental side, which therefore causes us to lose members who have a problem with nastiness and judgmentalism. > > There are plenty of online user groups for Leica people. I know of at least 3. I see no point in making the LUG be just like the others, and I believe that over the years the benefits of the lawlessness have outweighed the downsides. > > This habit of picking on Erwin is definitely a downside. I believe that if I were to run the LUG in a more-controlled fashion so that less of this happened, that some other parts would suffer. I wish you all were better behaved, but I'm not willing to take the draconian measures necessary to force you to behave. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html