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

[eric scheid]

On 4/1/11 3:48 PM, "Skot Nelson" <skot at penguinstorm.com> wrote:

>> I found a graph I did at the time... http://bit.ly/e7F9zj
>> 
>> You can see that while discussion volume (if not diversity of voices)
>> continued, that list nonetheless was being decimated behind the scenes.
> 
> 
> Nice graph. It'd be interesting to see Ziya's posts alone graphed as another
> line to see if the decline related to that specific volume. I gather that's
> not the case.

Well, that graph is for a different list, not sigia-l activity, but I see
your point. For the list of the graph, the decline was correlated with the
appearance and participation of the individual in question.

Note though that it's not just posts authored by that individual that was
the entirety of the problem. There were multiple flame-threads on that list
arguing back and forth whether he should shut the hell up just a bit, his
right and freedom to post, the "sure he's an ass but he [sometimes] provokes
interesting discussions" defenders, and so on.

That is, there was a lot of *forum-meta* discussion which, evidently, was
not of interest to a lot of (soon to be ex-) subscribers. Hard to be
surprised really - they subscribed for X, and get a bunch of noxious Y in
their mailbox. /plonk!

Threads like that also appeared on sigia-l, and were just as off-topic here.

About the only place a thread like that would be relevant would be if it was
on a list whose topic was list-management (I've been on a couple of those,
and they get really interesting).


e.