[pct-l] In defense of the thread herd

[Andrea Dinsmore]

Time for another glass of wine.........

PCT MOM

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:26 PM, mark v <allemande6 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Sorry Alison, but i have to disagree with you on this
> one.   I know the people who start and maintain this
> thread about the herd, and they put their hearts and
> souls into the quantity of posts.  It's easy to
> criticize when you're on your butt just reading
> threads, but just YOU try being the one to organize
> and type out all these words.
>
> Besides, before the current organized thread herd,
> posts on PCT-L tended to peak at the same time of year
> already.  All this thread has done is concentrate 300
> useless post topics into one really useless topic of
> 300 posts.  That's not going to make any more damage
> to the PCT-L than the old, random, spread-out thread
> herds.  Really, eventually the whole internet is going
> to be regulated anyway, so it doesn't matter.
>
> If you think this thread herd is bad, just try
> checking at Whiteblaze.net <http://whiteblaze.net/> for the annual debate
> over,
> uh, white-blazing.  Their thread herd makes our thread
> herd seem tiny.  It may be however that their web
> hosts, Ka-ching.org <http://ka-ching.org/> (they're such angels) have the
> bandwidth to handle the surging influx of posts.
>
> I guess the real reason why i'm in favor of all these
> posts, is that this is my year to finally thru-post,
> after years of only doing partial posts.  So i too
> want the social experience of bonding with the rest of
> the posters before i set out into the internet.
> Besides, there's safety in number of posts.
>
> Maybe as a comprimise, we could move the thread herd a
> little earlier in the posting season, and then people
> who wanted to post late could go back to the archives
> and  still post on topic.
>
> Or we could move the whole debate to another web list,
> like Idyllwild-L at sarcasticcountry.net.
>
> (pleeeeeese fellow-PCT lovers, don't let me down by
> taking this post seriously)
>
>
>
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