RE: OT-CHAT: Active?
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: RE: OT-CHAT: Active?
  • From: &* <c*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 12:21:30 -0800
With a list as this, all Iris messages come to my inbox.  With a forum, I would have to take the time to log into it so when rushed, as I usually am, I would just put it off - read it wouldn't happen.  Even more off-putting, forums categorize messages by topic so I would have to check each category to see what was said.  Again, too time consuming.  With this list I can see what someone is talking about and if I want to I can hit the delete key.  Often though, a topic is raised that I would not have gone to on a forum, yet find it interesting.  So I think a list brings people together (rather than separate forum topics), is faster, and more informative.  If people want to spin off into study groups they still can.

Colleen NE Calif.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of Robert Pries 
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2016 5:46 AM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: Re: OT-CHAT: [iris] Active?

Collen. Linda, and Shaub: I Prefer Iris talk over Facebook, I have never used a Forum so I am not sure the differences. I have had a couple of people suggest a forum for AIS and I had been considering proposing that to the AIS board. I felt I needed more understanding before I proposed it and since AIS just changed electronics chairs I wanted to give Bob Seaman time to learn his new job. 

I also thought maybe it could be useful for the Iris Encyclopedia. I would love to have more feedback on how it evolves. One concern I had was if a forum was created would there be enough people using it or would it be embarrassingly slack like Iris talk has sadly become? 

Bob Seaman did the PCN website and I believe it has a forum but again it did not seem that active. Of course PCNs are a rather specialized topic. I know with the number of e-mails I get every day I would not have the time to support a forum with lots of my own posts even if I would like to do so. So I ask everyone for guidance on this matter.
---Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Colleen" <c138d07f1@rewrite.hort.net>
To: iris@hort.net
Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2016 12:18:34 AM
Subject: RE: OT-CHAT: [iris] Active?

I meant to say "If people ARE going to choose Facebook"

Colleen

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of Colleen
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 8:52 PM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: RE: OT-CHAT: [iris] Active?

I too am against Facebook, but I also don't like forums.  I prefer lists just like this one.  If people aren't going to choose Facebook over a list I don't see that a forum is going to interest them.

Colleen  NE Calif.  Z? (Yes I can read the zone maps, but they seldom relate to the real world.)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of Shaub Dunkley
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 6:34 PM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: Re: OT-CHAT: [iris] Active?

sigh. I am one of those people who refuses to use Facebook. I read the 'terms and conditions' of that dubiously intentioned place and cannot understand why people would want their organization's core discourse to get sucked into that for-profit black hole. The central idea is to have people create content at no cost to Facebook. Content to promote profit making.
Drifting to the lowest common denominator - fast-food 'McDonald's'
discourse.

A better alternative for irisarians to have some other logical non-commercial option. Like maybe the AIS to create a forum? I have no earthly idea why there isn't one there. It makes no sense at all that the flagship irisarian organization cannot get it up to have one. It could give the larger irisarian community a central place to meet and better hope for a central narrative beyond fast-food.

:) Of course I don't have a strong opinion about this.
Shaub Dunkley
Z 6a western NC

On 1/6/2016 5:23 PM, Linda Mann wrote:
> Yep, we're still here.  Not sure I'd exactly call us "active" any 
> more.  Most folks who used to talk on hort.net have moved to Facebook.
>
> But the archived discussions still were getting a lot of traffic, last 
> time I checked with our 'landlord', Chris.
>
> Colleen, is that Colleen Modra?  What in the world are you doing here 
> in the winter?  Wrong time of year to be hybridizing.
>
> Linda Mann
> east TN USA
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