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Subject: 
Encouraging Participation (Was: Re: Cleaning up the main homepage)
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Date: 
Fri, 10 Mar 2000 01:49:35 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Frank Buiting writes:

> I have been reading all the messages in this group since I started to browse
> LUGNET (since october '99) Yet I haven't really contributed in the
> discussions. My main reason is that I feel like a newbie between you people
> and every time I start writing a mail the "don't be a wiseguy"-feeling comes
> up.

This is A Bad Thing (tm) - everyone should be made aware of how important their
opinions and thoughts are..


> The admin group 'feels' like the board for experienced LUGNETters  to me, so
> who am I to mind LUGNET admin business. Note that this is my feeling, but
> probably more people feel like that.

Pffffh.. I'm pretty inexperienced! Yep - I think you're right that it does have
a bit of a different aura to it, I guess I never percieved it as one unfriendly
to my random thoughts and suggestions though.


> So Todd, Scott and others, just by mentioning that the views of all people
> who care count, caused me to participate in these discussions. So there, I
> hope you're happy about it ;-)

I am :) Also for the reason that you've convinced me that a good way to
encourage more participation is by making it clear that all opinions are
welcome. I've come up with this prototype:
<http://www.lugnet.com/playground/?p=richard-test2>

The design needs reworking - but hopefully the concept is a bit more clearer
than in <http://www.lugnet.com/people/?n=390>. The other benefit of this is
that it promtes visible feedback - which after all is (IMO) the best way to
encourage people to participate.

Richard



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Encouraging Participation (Was: Re: Cleaning up the main homepage)
 
(...) Hey. That's NIFTY. Todd, can you in your copious free time collect together some of the undocumented (or not documented in a standard place) stuff and put it all in one place? Some of the different ways to look at groups by item count (...) (27 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Encouraging Participation (Was: Re: Cleaning up the main homepage)
 
(...) people (...) I (...) clearer (...) is (...) to (...) Thanks for this effort. It looks good. I think it is all too easy for issues to be lost in large threads. This sort of page would help this not to be the case. Scott A (27 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:Fr6ABv.1MA@lugnet.com... (...) from (...) reduces (...) who (...) I have been reading all the messages in this group since I started to browse LUGNET (since october '99) Yet I haven't really (...) (27 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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