Re: Important: Encourage people to join the list | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Diana Carroll (dianaecarrollgmail.com) | |
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 06:34:27 -0700 (PDT) |
I don't think here is the place to go into all the technical details, but as a very abbreviated summary: built-in threading (reply based, not subject-based like email clients provide); easy, intuitive searching; profiles (no more people getting yelled at for forgetting to put in their community name); no need for digest and getting yelled at for not correctly trimming; sortability; multi-media; ability to delete or edit a message; geez, the list goes on and on and on. In general, when a technology is designed for a single, specific purpose, it is better for that purpose than more general technology. This is no exception. and the single, overarching, most important, completely unarguable advantage: young people actually use it and find it a comfortable, natural, familiar way to have a discussion. My young adult offspring wouldn't sign up for an email list, and if they did, would rarely read it. Almost as important: easily locatable. Which was your very point in starting this discussion -- why aren't people using this list? "I’ve had and seen much more convoluted and fierce discussions in every other format" That is a matter of culture, not technology. Flame wars can happen in any medium. On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 9:20 AM Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L < cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote: > > On Jun 16, 2021, at 8:28 AM, Diana Carroll <dianaecarroll [at] gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Actually email is about the worst possible way to have discussions like > > these. > > Why? I hear people maintain this often, but I hear no reasons for it. It > does require a moderator, like any discussion, to keep things on track and > summarize “where we are”, but I’ve had and seen much more convoluted and > fierce discussions in every other format, especially F2F. > > > The only thing good about it compared to technology designed specifically > > for group discussion, like Reddit, is that it’s a push system (stuff just > > arrived in my email box) rather than a pull system (I have to take action > > to access the content like visit a website). > > Can you explain how Reddit works? I haven’t made a study of it but I can’t > see the advantages. > > (And the gray type on a black ground is a no go. I can’t imagine that this > got through an accessibility test.) > > Sharon > ——— > Sharon Villines, Editor & Publisher > Affordable Housing means 30% of household income > Cohousing means self-developed, self-governed, self-managed > http://affordablecohousing.com > > To subscribe to the discussion list send a blank message to: > affordablecohousing+subscribe [at] groups.io > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://L.cohousing.org/info > > > >
- Re: Important: Encourage people to join the list, (continued)
- Re: Important: Encourage people to join the list Virgil Huston, June 15 2021
- Re: Important: Encourage people to join the list Henning Mortensen, June 16 2021
- Re: Important: Encourage people to join the list Diana Carroll, June 16 2021
- Re: Important: Encourage people to join the list Sharon Villines, June 16 2021
- Re: Important: Encourage people to join the list Diana Carroll, June 16 2021
- Re: Important: Encourage people to join the list Diana Carroll, June 16 2021
- Re: Important: Encourage people to join the list Diana Carroll, June 16 2021
- Re: Important: Encourage people to join the list Leila Tite, June 16 2021
- Re: Important: Encourage people to join the list Henning Mortensen, June 16 2021
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