But I have another question: someone suggested that the best 500 of the TORC membership could create a comfortable mass; that we could each invite a handful of TORC friends and leave it at that - not open the Board at all.
That someone was me, Impenitent. What I further suggested was this:
If each of the current members, all 80? of us, recommend a minimum of, say, five people to this board we will have a thriving, diversified and hopefully intelligent, community of 400+.
And your response was
Well...doesn't that constitute poaching? That's not what this is all about, I know, but think about it: If we solicit those we like from TORC and coax them over here to create a community with us - is that ethical?
That's quite different from the ad hoc process that has gone before
No. It isn't. It does not constitute poaching. Unless you believe that I and all others who have received invitations to join this board since its inception have been poached, stolen away, from TORC. And if you do, why then, the growth of b77 has been unethical from the beginning. I don't think you can abitrarily enter a time line and say that all subsequent TORC invitations are now unethical.
First of all, many of us still post on both boards. Second, I did not say that we must cull only from TORC and only then with the caveat that
they must abandon that messageboard. I merely stated that without
some checks and balances in place this board could grow as unweildy as TORC and therefore some sort of policing would become a necessity.
Now I will admit to a certain amount of elitism insofar as I personally do not want to have to navigate any large amount of juvenility,
whether it be in netspeak or no, in order to participate in a conversation which includes adults ideas and is intellectually stimulating .... such posts as you yourself have written on TORc both in this persona and as Novice.
I do not want to see posts such as those become a minority. I'm not
saying that this is a forgone conclusion, all I am saying is, it's possible.
After all, in RL I choose not to frequent loud bars or hiphop concerts.
Those sorts of events no longer hold any appeal for me.
All I am doing is telling my truth. I believed that when I came here I would be able to do so without fear of censure. You well may disagree with me. That's okay, but I'm a little uncomfortable with you suggesting that my concepts are unethical.
My suggestion was that we remain as we are for a period of time and then re-asess the situation.
I apologise in advance if I sound overly prickly. I don't intend it. Really I don't.