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[lojban] Re: preventing cartmanism (was: RE: Re: a new kind of fundamentalism
At 01:14 PM 10/4/02 +0100, And Rosta wrote:
Jay:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:44:27AM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
> > A speaker of a conlang is more likely to say, in the immortal words
> > of Eric Cartman, "Screw you guys, I'm going home."
>
> Exactly. And this is what the "new fundamentalists" want to prevent.
It's what we all want to prevent. How to prevent it is one of the
themes of this thread. My view continues to be that the best
solution is to ghettoize (to different lists and different areas
of the wiki) the controversial activities of the various factions,
and reserve the common forums for uncontroversial things. Lojbab
seems to have come round to this view recently.
Primarily because the community seems to now be robust enough that the
"ghettos" can be populated without depopulating the main list.
I still would like to see the summary articles, but they'll likely be
solicited for JL when it restarts, even if people don't start habitually
posting summaries.
I don't know whether you or anyone else still reads Linguist List, but what
I would like to see wrt the "ghettoization", is when someone on Linguist
List has posted a query, collected answers off-list, and then posted a
summary for the List of the response. For Lojban purposes, this would mean
that someone posts a "how to say it" query, and if it seems to get into
technicalities, someone says - "let's take it to jboske and I will
summarize the results for the main list". The jboske option is superior to
private email in that the arguments are logged.
BTW, while I have had objections to moving the main Lojban List off
yahoogroups for advertising reasons, I would encourage the mirroring/moving
of the specialty lists to lojban.org because of the archiving question.
In other words, given that not everyone wants to play the same game,
we should manage our affairs so that the different games can be
played separately without infringing on the others.
I really don't see that we are playing different games. Rather, it is a
question of data volume and relevance. Mailing lists really don't have
many filtering options. But when the volume gets too high, people tune out
from overload or sign off the list. When the volume gets too low, people
fall asleep.
The wiki has turned out to be a better tool for working at the interest
level you want without getting bogged in excess detail (which can be shoved
off to another page) (Nora likes reading it more than the list). But it
isn't nearly as easy to follow in real time as a mailing list.
lojbab
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