jonny jeez
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
Is it worth the space on the board, does it achieve anything anymore, is it worth the admin resource.
I have learnt a great deal from the section in the past but often, it seems at some cost. However, more recently it feels as if the patterns of the section are repeating more frequently and that less is actually being discussed..or learnt.
New posters are frightened off, leaving the same members (me included) repeating the same views, to the same audience...with inevitable results.
The pattern that I see more often now is along the lines of.
Op, posts a question or view
Responces are given, some of which are provocative, some not and some just down right rude.
Posters assume a position and refuse to budge an inch for fear of looking as if they have made a mistake, are misinformed or made to look daft.
This repeats for a while untill tempers flare and the thread is locked...or removed.
So what has that achieved. More importantly, to those just gaining sufficient privileges to see the section for the first time...how does it make the site look.
The pattern above is now becoming so common that threads sometimes become locked within the first few pages of discussion, often with insults flying in the very first reply.
Claims that the thread attracts passionate discussion from intelligent folk , seem hollow to me because if we have true passion and intellect, surely we would also have the capacity to see the futility of allowing that pattern to continue.
I believe that enemy's are made in one topic...that the blinkers then come down and the myopia is carried across through other threads, I also wonder if the increased aggression and level of insults is ever used to deliberately close a thread to remove an opinion, topic or mistake.
I want sc&p to work but to do so it needs to attract far more varied input, from a more varied membership
So is it all worth it to you?
I have learnt a great deal from the section in the past but often, it seems at some cost. However, more recently it feels as if the patterns of the section are repeating more frequently and that less is actually being discussed..or learnt.
New posters are frightened off, leaving the same members (me included) repeating the same views, to the same audience...with inevitable results.
The pattern that I see more often now is along the lines of.
Op, posts a question or view
Responces are given, some of which are provocative, some not and some just down right rude.
Posters assume a position and refuse to budge an inch for fear of looking as if they have made a mistake, are misinformed or made to look daft.
This repeats for a while untill tempers flare and the thread is locked...or removed.
So what has that achieved. More importantly, to those just gaining sufficient privileges to see the section for the first time...how does it make the site look.
The pattern above is now becoming so common that threads sometimes become locked within the first few pages of discussion, often with insults flying in the very first reply.
Claims that the thread attracts passionate discussion from intelligent folk , seem hollow to me because if we have true passion and intellect, surely we would also have the capacity to see the futility of allowing that pattern to continue.
I believe that enemy's are made in one topic...that the blinkers then come down and the myopia is carried across through other threads, I also wonder if the increased aggression and level of insults is ever used to deliberately close a thread to remove an opinion, topic or mistake.
I want sc&p to work but to do so it needs to attract far more varied input, from a more varied membership
So is it all worth it to you?
