Posted by Dr. Bob on May 2, 2002, at 15:21:01
In reply to Unsolicited thoughts about multiple boards (long), posted by mair on April 30, 2002, at 17:58:58
> In my opinion , in spite of the bickering, PSB, as it existed before the recent split was every bit as friendly and accepting as PB was in 2000 before the creation of PSB. (actually probably more) While there are now overall many more posters if you consider all of the boards, PSB, anyway, sees certainly no more and possibly fewer posters than did PB before that first split. When I came on in 2000, I was very intimidated by what I felt was the "club" atmosphere of the Board. It took me a long time (months not weeks) to feel like anyone was even remotely aware of my presence. I think new posters now are identified and enveloped into the fold much more easily and quickly.
That's a nice perspective, thanks.
> The more Boards the less connecting there will be. For those of us who've been pretty active over enough of a span to want to connect with alot of different people, it's incredibly confusing now just to figure out where to go. Afficianados of the 2000 Board can say now that they intend to spend plenty of time on PSB but how are they going to decide what goes where, and at what point will that become just too much of a hassle? Some of those same people who have advocated for an old timers board, opposed the original creation of PSB because people would untimately choose one board or the other. That really did happen with alot of regular participants. We're all time limited and we have to make choices about how to allocate that time.
IMO, it was good that PSB could be created and become friendly and accepting. Even if it was disruptive for a time and some posters lost touch after the split (which is of course what PB 2000 is for...). The more friendly and accepting boards, the better. It may not be one big happy family, but the more big happy families, the better, too.
> If there is some function to the 2000 Board, there is absolutely no function to the 2001 Board except perhaps to make some people feel better about being excluded by giving them the opportunity to exclude someone else... To cut it off at the end of 2000 seems highly arbitrary and has given some foundation, shaky at best, to the notion of creating new boards every calendar year.
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> MairIf the 2000 board serves a valid purpose for some posters, might not the 2001 board serve that same purpose for other posters?
Doing it by year is arbitrary, but it does at least have the advantages of being relatively straightforward and of not leaving anybody out, which a "frequent flier" board, for example, would.
So I'd like to try some new boards, but I'm not by any means wedded to the current system. If anyone can think of a better way to do this, I'm open to suggestions!
Bob
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