Re: You know rss is in trouble when ...
- From: real_mardin@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 10 Apr 2007 04:52:16 -0700
On Apr 10, 3:00 am, "Jim Goloboy" <golo...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I blame Real Mardin's message board for stealing all the traffic.
Cheers Jim, Classic stuff as always. *s* You know, to date our users -
of which you are one - have posted a total of 333 articles *falsely
proud smile*.
As someone who has been here since 1998 a few brief observations:
1) The "Golden" period for the group, in my opinion, was the late
1990's / very ealry naughties. The group enjoyed a high number of
articulate posters (helped in no small way by USENET being a preferred
tool of many academics at the time), firey debates starring such rss
legends as Robert The 'Erbert, Lech, Bert Handschumacher, Paul C, Huw
Morris, Ed Lor, Paul Mettewie, Daniele Passerman and many, many more
I've neglected to mention.
2) In the mid naughties (02-05), the group took on a different
direction with the arrival of a certain high volume poster who I won't
name (*cough*, vee*cough*kee*cough**cough*beeeeeeeeeeeeeee*cough*).
What originally seemed quite a revitalising direction soon started to
create problems of it's own, with rss becoming too cliquey,
fragmented, off topic and certain posters being excluded from debates.
The afforementioned high volume poster started to generate a lot of
obsessive off topic troll traffic, there were also legitimate fallings
out between this poster and bona fide rss'ers which took up a lot of
bandwith. I know some people refer to the period 01-03 as the golden
period of rss, but looking in from the outside it sure didn't feel
that way.
3) The newsgroup it currently at the quitest level I've ever known,
but I tend to take a quality vs quantity approach to the situation.
I'm confident we still have enough the old guard left to keep the rss
spirit going. However, it will take commitment from all involved. We
can all sit around blaming Veee-keee Beeee or Ben Smith (it would be
very churlish to do so, but I'm just using those names as a example)
but if we want to save this NG then we all need to get off up our
arses and POST SOME ARTICLES. It probably wouldn't hurt to promote the
group elsewhere, ie in academic journals, sports writers clubs etc.
4) Re:People abandoning certain topics due to lack of replies - I did
the same with my Turkish coverage for the same reasons. It's also the
same reason I don't bother to write up Nottingham Forest match
reports. I know another rss'er who feels the same. For what it's
worth, if you enjoyed someone's article, in my opinion the least you
could do is to fire off a quick reply to say as much - writing unpaid
articles takes time and commitment that few of us these days, so the
least you can do is take a couple of seconds out to say "nice article,
enjoyed reading it".
5) We need more unity, let's stop bickering, branding each other
"trolls", killfiling, name calling etc.
Regards,
RM
rec.sport.soccer.community
http://rsscommunity.myfastforum.org/
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