Some people like to enumerate all the points, that other people might take to be assumable/implied/given. This might be disparagingly labeled as "an amazing capacity for stating the blindingly obvious". It is a common symptom of various types of "youth".
I find the contributions of the two participants being discussed, plus Geoffrey, to be generally unhelpful in gaining a deeper understanding of any issue. Partially because they say nothing new, partially because they treat the discussion more like IRC/IM than email, partially for the other reasons already mentioned by others.
I'm going to take this opportunity to attempt to setup the username filtering/blacklisting that many people have suggested, to see if that drastically improves the signal/noise ratio.
I'd also be interested in how Birgitte's suggestion would work out, if adopted by everyone here: "I wonder if no one responds to [...] for a month how much he will continue to post."
Quiddity
On 8/30/09, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Anders Wennersten < anders.wennersten@bonetmail.com> wrote:
I am for the moment active in some 15 wikimedia mailgroups. I have compared the working on foundation-l with internal-l for instance and find that almost the same topics are up with very much the same people and arguments, but where on internal a complicated issue can take 20-30 mails whereafter often some type a consensus is reached , I find on foundation-l some 200-300 mail in the same subject with no firm conclusion.
I'm sure you'd find the same sort of thing if you compared a town hall meeting in North Korea with a town hall meeting in New Hampshire. I wouldn't take very much comfort in that.
Anthony,
I'm not sure they ever have community meetings of any sort in North Korea, but generally a New England town meeting is a lot like Wikipedia. People who have a long history of being unconstructive blowhards are generally ignored.
Fred
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