Posted by alexandra_k on August 31, 2013, at 19:36:18
In reply to Re: The Illusion of Participation » Moishe Pipik, posted by Partlycloudy on August 30, 2013, at 15:58:23
I think part of the problem with getting Bob to change is that the community is often divided on which way the change should go. Some people want him to do x while others actively resist his doing that and in fact they think things should change more towards not-x.
And I think that quite often there are process things going on... But I do understand that saying that is like saying 'you are only feeling that way about that because your period is due' or (I'm coming to realize) 'you are only feeling that way about that because you haven't done your three hours of work for today'.
At least the last one is in my power...
Participation is hard... There is controversy over whether plants move. Not talking about venus fly-trap... Talking more about things like sunflower heads following the sun... Talking more still about growth as a form of movement. If you watch such things when they are appropriately sped up they look like movement. Our perceptual abilities bias in various sorts of ways... I wonder if we look like sunflower heads moving to those zippy little flies that are next to impossible to swot...
My point being: That things are much slower than they used to be because there are less posters / because the posters that are still around are around less frequently. When things were busy... It was only too easy for me to be sucked into spending most of my life here. Now... It is still tempting for me... But that is mostly out of habit of my way of interacting with the boards, I think. If I were to check in... Once a week? Things perhaps wouldn't seem so slow...
But then there is an issue of utility with respect to how soonish one needs / wants responses... And numbers of responses... And so on...
I don't know what to say...
Except that still, the boards are what we make of them. It might be my numeracy issues but I don't really notice the time stamps...
I don't know what to say...
(Which is why it is always a constant surprise to me to see just how f*ck*ng verbose I can be)
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