On 8/7/2018 1:08 PM, a sunjian wrote:
The one thing I don't like about aroid-L is the
fact that because it's moderated messages do not immediately go
out to the group. It's slightly annoying to have to wait, and it
prevents better conversations as you don't get the smooth back
and forth that you see in non-moderated email groups.
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 12:37 PM, Steve
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wrote:
What seems to happen is that people don't actually
unsubscribe from Aroid-L - they just stop posting. When
enough people stop posting, then someone will create a
new forum using whatever the current technology is, and
everyone joins that because that's where the action is,
at least for a while. A lot of the community is the same
across all the different fora, because we don't want to
miss out. But we're all still here, and we will respond
if poked a bit, as the response to Jude's post shows.
Usenet groups were the first such gathering places of
which I'm aware (and it was mostly computer geeks on
Usenet, because mostly only we had access at the time),
following by mailing lists (Aroid-L dates to the early
1990s), followed by web-based "forums", followed by
Facebook and other social media. Who knows what's next?
Mailing lists may actually be the crocodiles of the
Internet forum world, surviving with minimal changes
through the evolution and extinction of other, more
transient species. My own opinion is that's because (a)
everyone has email, regardless of what other fora they
also use, and (b) the mailing list brings the posts to
you without you having to do anything. Web-based fora
and social media require at least some initiative to go
visit the site or start their app, which is why they nag
you relentlessly to do so.
(Nice Schismatoglottis, Peter!)
Steve
On
8/7/2018 3:02 AM,
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Peter,
this
is a very nice comment on FB - I still regret the
day (I guess it was an aroid-L member) when the
amorphophalllus group in FB was opened; well, it has
it advatages like easy posting pictures etc and the
manyfold contacts to people all over the world; but
you pint out nicely the disadvatages - let alone the
advatages for Mr. Zuckerberg..
I
was remarkable how quickly the aroid-L lost the
active members who definitely all switched to FB...
I
never joined FB and probably never will -
interesting that more and more people dislike FB;
we'll see what happens...
Anyhow,
since you are a FB member, Peter, what about writing
a post there to remember people that the aroid-L is
still there; after it is posseble to post pictures
here as well, it is more attractive again - maybe
even all the nice people and experts in Amorphs etc.
like Lord P., Alan G., Steve J, Christian T., Susan
B., Tom C., Tony A., Scott H., Lester K., Marek A.,
Albert H., Steve M., and and and..... (sorry to all
I do not mention in a hurry.....) think about it and
come back or reregister....
Just
my 2ct....
Happy
growing, Bernhard.
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Datum: 2018-08-07T08:56:36+0200
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An: "Discussion of aroids"
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Steve and all... I for one would be delighted
to see Aroid-L with a new lease of life - the
sheer quantity of "messages" I get when posting
anything on FB has led me to being very selective,
not to say the annoyance of trying to re-find a
post that only moments earlier was on the screen
but is now buried under a mass of images of
peoples' food interspersed with persistent adverts
for incontinence products.
Anyhow... in the vein of sharing... here is a
nice dwarf Schismatoglottis we are in the process
of describing for inclusion in the next Aroideana.
Peter
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