[Sigia-l] Anyone suggest a better global list?

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

On 29 December 2010 19:12, Will Evans <will at semanticfoundry.com> wrote:

> Vapid debate over definitions of ux/ia/ixd and such has moved to Twitter.
>

Good riddance to that!


> Meaningful question/answers have moved to Quora.
>

Citation(s) please


> Ziya never really existed.
> Then again, neither did I.
>
>
It's been years now of course, but what I recollect seeing on this list when
Ziya posted on it was a bunch of people demonstrating in no uncertain terms
that they hated being disagreed with.

I always found that rather surprising given a large part of being a designer
is having to handle disagreement (be it rationally based or not). I saw it
all as a good excuse to get stuck into the fray myself by way of training
for the real world of CEOs telling me that everything has to be above the
fold. So I rather missed it when it went away.

Be that as it may, since then I've detected a decidedly worrying streak in
the "community" for pretty unvarnished intolerance of alternative views. For
example, since mailing lists like SIGIA died away, I've been posting
comments on other people's blogs by way of a discussion substitute from time
to time. On several occasions, I've had my comments censored by blog owners
for being - I assume - simply off message. Perhaps this sort of thing has
always happened when publishers have had control of the back channel, but
that doesn't make it any less depressing. The last time I found out it had
happened, I decided to blog about it in the hope that the censoring party
would notice and engage me in a valuable debate. But it didn't happen :-(

So be careful what you wish for in wanting alternative platforms (and since
when was the medium the message anyway?)

Jonathan