Re: [Sigia-l] Anyone suggest a better global list?
eric scheid <[email protected]>
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On 4/1/11 3:48 PM, "Skot Nelson" <[email protected]> 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. ------------ 2011 IA Summit March 30 - April 3, 2011 Pre Conference Seminars: March 30-31 IA Summit: April 1-3 Hyatt Regency Convention Center Denver, CO ----- When replying, please *trim your post* as much as possible. *Plain text, please; NO Attachments Searchable Archive at http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/ ________________________________________ Sigia-l mailing list -- post to: [email protected] Changes to subscription: http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l