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Marc de Ruijter

-- ben koot (ben@travelcompass.zzn.com), February 21, 2001

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Hi all,

Since the start of LSM i've been posting regulary but not anymore since januar this year.

Personal reasons -and how could I know about other reasons- for this include the skewed balance between 'new' postings/threads versus reactions to other postings. The latter are mostly short, sometimes only a weblink, which is much like saying: RTFM (Read The Fine Manual). In other words: too much monologs and too little dialogs.

I also feel there is too much talk and to little action going on. It pulls a lot of energy thinking and discussing ideas, how engaging and interesting they may be, and not follow up on them.

*Feel - Think -Act* is more my motto, must have something to do with my job as multimedia producer/publisher, where I like to see ideas materialize, uhh, digitalize, in a few months after the ideas have come up.

But than again, these matters seem to be the status quo in most "community" site's. It is very logical why these sites just don't work: if the majority of people takes more out of the system than it givers back, the well is dried out very, very soon and the newborn community is dead as a rock.

%%% feed the web first %%% [Kevin Kelly]

Maybe some informal interaction rules will change things for the better, here are just some ideas:

A. for every x posts you read and find valuable somehow, post or reply 1 message. B. If you get a satisfying answer to a question you've asked: answer one question. This is easy: register as expert (at www.askme.com for example) in a few categories and you'll get lots of changes. C. Keep balance: the internet does something for you, you do something back.

Greetinx,

-- ben koot (ben@travelcompass.zzn.com), February 21, 2001.


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