Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 13:39:31 06/30/00
It has been very interesting to read all these posts going around in never ending circles about what is and what is not on-topic or off-topic. IMHO the concept of on-or-off-topic is highly subjective, and is often used by one group to bully another. Truth is you don't really know what is and what is not. This is a discussion board. It is composed of members. Members are all different. Some read some posts and some read others. If members read posts, and carry on reading posts in a thread, they must be interested, no? If a thread gets long, and nobody reads it, then you can assume members are voting with their feet, and expressing disinterest. Long threads which nobody wants to read, appear to 'piss people off', terminology I am getting used to reading. Why don't you just fix the board software to count reads and display them in the title field? Just as if they were beans. Then the evidence to declare on or off-topic would have objectivity. I'm sure the moderators then have enough non-Artificial Intelligence to interpret the bean counts before jumping into contentious actions. Chris Whittington
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