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Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Thu, 9 Mar 2000 20:10:38 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> > If the .off-topic.* and .admin.* messages are unpalatable for "commoners",
> > then perhaps they shouldn't've have been invited here.
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> "They" == the messages, not the "commoners".
Ah. I see. Hmm.
Well, the .debate group doesn't really exist to "invite" debates but rather
to have a place to deflect them to, because they always seem to come up in any
sufficiently large online newsgroup or mailing list situation. OTOH, having
the .debate group (as opposed to not having it) probably makes for more and
longer debates, but I think it makes for a lot fewer off-topic debates and
arguments in regular groups, which is really the goal to prevent. So it's a
net gain, or at least that's the rationale for having it.
> The more people, the merrier.
Well, that's the hope! :o)
> "Commoners" is such a yucky term also. How about "newbies". Or am I just
> being elitist?
I think it's one of those 80%/20% things. 20% of the people make 80% of the
posts. The 20% are "regluars" and the 80% are "casual users" of the system.
Something like that... :-I
--Todd
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| (...) "They" == the messages, not the "commoners". The more people, the merrier. "Commoners" is such a yucky term also. How about "newbies". Or am I just being elitist? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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