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Re: Feedback thoughts?
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 16 Dec 2002 01:29:36 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Pedro Silva writes:
> Hi John,
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> I think I can agree there seem to be less responses to the average post here
> in Lugnet, but I suppose it does not mean less attention is given to those
> posts; IMO, people used to post a lot more back when everything was "new",
> because there was a lot more "Aahh! effect" back then - I can remember that
> my first months as a lurker here I saw plenty of fantastic constructions
> that I had never thought possible.
Agreed. But I am still amazed at the things people can build...
> That inicial effect tends to fade, as one gets more and more used to the
> high standards within the building community. I do not mean to say that
> those who build "smaller" get less attention or value from anyone who reads
> their posts, or even less readers; what I mean is the "bigger" the *novelty
> factor* is, the more actual feedback it will generate. An example would be
> the Pods: in the beggining every pod got plenty of responses, but as newer
> pods appeared the inicial enthousiasm began to fade (and IMHO some of the
> more recent pods were the best of them all...)
Yeah, I've noticed that as time went on, the fad MOCs got better, but the
enthusiasm got lower.
But fad MOCs always do seem to get more feedback- especially from the
startes of the fad who would probabbly not otherwise respond.
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> Then, there is the "focus" effect; my own experience as a poster tells me I
> used to read practically everything in my first 6 months as a poster, but
> then my attention became a lot more focused on specific newsgroups (and some
> others I just chose to ignore, because I have little understanding of what
> is discussed there - CAD comes to mind rigt now). Now I spend a considerable
> part of my time as a poster writing in loc.pt, where I was able to found
> some other AFOLs who live near me, and only post in other groups
> sporadically, whenever I encounter a specific problem OR by mere accident (I
> recall some posts in loc.it that happened this way... :-)
I have always been focused on .space, but that IMHO increased my activity,
not decrease it.
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> Then there is the bad influence of schedules: people have less time to write
> when they are engaged in their building projects - so fewer posts can
> actually be a symptom af a healthy community, one that spends most of the
> time using their fingers to build rather than to type. Which reminds me, I
> have built little since the summer holidays... :-/
I'm not sure of that... whenever I'm working on something, I always seem to
keep on the alert online, while when I'm still thinking of an idea, I stay
off more.
I wonder what other people do...
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> As for the post quality... I dunno, but perhaps a lot of "good stuff; bye"
> posts aren't that good. I'd rather have a long reply where questions were
> raised (like "how did you build that?" or "can you do it with this part
> instead?") than plenty of "I saw it, it's OK, what's next?" posts. The first
> kind actually means someone cared to look at one's work with attention, and
> to me that is the biggest form to value work.
Read these series of posts:
http://news.lugnet.com/market/appraisal/?n=584
Thanks for the feedback, guys! :-)
-JHK
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