[Fluxx] Blanxx Page Ideas

[James Hazelton]

What with the amount of discussion we get anyways, "hunting" a small forum
won't take much longer than looking through email. And even if you're
deleting non-relevant email, you wouldn't have to look at it at all were it
on a forum. For example, if I want to have one single discussion about a
Chrononauts card, I'll have to join the mailing list and get every single
email about Chrononauts that comes through the pipeline. When the
conversation ends, I can remove myself from the list and stop the barrage of
junk emails, but then I wouldn't receive the message of someone who has
something to say on the topic a week or two after. Under a forum system, I
can just check that one thread, without bothering to look at the other posts
about Chrononauts.

As for me, I have not joined the NanoFictionary list because, although I
would be interested to hear about creative NanoBlanks, I don't care to read
tons of short stories. So now I get neither. Under a forum system, I could
check the section occasionally to see about interested NanoBlanks, and skip
over threads about stories.

Further, more people will join a forum than a mailing list. Most people
don't want strangers getting their email addresses and sending them emails
at every hour of the day on topics that are only mildly interesting. As a
result, we only ever get the same 10-20 people piping up on these lists.
Forums are less personal, so people are more willing to join.

There's also the involvement aspect. LooneyLabs.com, and especially
Wunderland, are very much read-and-watch only. Today's popular websites
allow users to get into the website and interact. Our registries as rabbits
allow us to post a paragraph and a mug shot, and that's the extent of it. At
least a forum gives us an avatar and a signature that may include a
colourful and perhaps humorous banner. Come to think of it,
Wunderland--being a blog from before the age of blogs--doesn't even have a
comments section at the bottom.

I've always wanted LL to have a forum. But when I discovered it didn't, I
resigned to join the mailing list. If it weren't for Gmail's conversation
view and 2.9 gigabytes that make my mailing list experience very
forum-esque, I would have unsubscribed long ago.

On 8/6/07, I <iosef at gothic.net.au> wrote:
>
> At 01:37 PM 7/08/2007, Anestis Kozakis wrote:
>
> >At 17:09 -0500 07/08/06, James Hazelton wrote:
> >>Looney Labs should have a forum anyways--this mailing list system
> >>is a pretty old technology. Unfortunately, LL has better things to
> >>do with their time now than start up a forum system.
> >
> >I prefer mailing lists, as the information comes to you, as opposed
> >taking time out to hunt for the information yourself.
> >
> >Mailing lists are not old technology.  They are still as relevant as
> >they were 20 years ago.
> One advantage is that you can quickly delete any non-relevant mail,
> and keep any useful. This means that looking for information suffers
> less from Signal-to-noise problems.
>
> Iestyn
>
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