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![]() "Roger" wrote in message ... On Thu, 05 May 2005 02:19:24 GMT, "Dudley Henriques" dhenriques@noware .net wrote: The thing on the newsgroups is you can be any one. Only after developing a posting history do any of us gain or lose credibility. This is both true and false in my experience with Usenet. A posting history involving qualified and obviously experienced posters produces credibility only with those on the group who know and appreciate sound knowledge and information. With these people over time, posting is executed in an arena of mutual respect for both sides of an issue. Unfortunately, there exists on Usenet, an element that never actually enters into the credibility equation because credibility isn't their main interest when it comes to a specific poster. This element exists in an emotional world where feelings govern actions. You can have all the credibility in the world with the knowledgeable posters on a group and you will simply never have credibility with this second element. So in the end, a typical Usenet experience for a credible poster will be a mixture of intelligent discourse with the folks who know....and a constantly deteriorating experience with the second element. Every poster will react differently to this Usenet experience. The bottom line on how long a credible poster will hang in on Usenet won't be found in that poster's experience with other credible posters. Invariably, it will depend entirely on just how much effect the poster absorbs from that second undesirable element. Everyone has a different tolerance level. Some quit early. Some don't mind it at all. Some like me just lose respect slowly for the Usenet concept and drift in and out as the mood hits them. For me, it's simply gone from useful and mutually respectful communication to what it is now......not much of anything really....just a sparring match every now and then with faceless people I don't know, and who surely don't know me! Dudley |
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On Thu, 05 May 2005 04:41:22 GMT, "Dudley Henriques"
dhenriques@noware .net wrote: "Roger" wrote in message .. . On Thu, 05 May 2005 02:19:24 GMT, "Dudley Henriques" dhenriques@noware .net wrote: The thing on the newsgroups is you can be any one. Only after developing a posting history do any of us gain or lose credibility. This is both true and false in my experience with Usenet. A posting history involving qualified and obviously experienced posters produces credibility only with those on the group who know and appreciate sound knowledge and information. With these people over time, posting is executed in an arena of mutual respect for both sides of an issue. Unfortunately, there exists on Usenet, an element that never actually enters into the credibility equation because credibility isn't their main interest when it comes to a specific poster. This element exists in an emotional world where feelings govern actions. You can have all the credibility in the world with the knowledgeable posters on a group and you will simply never have credibility with this second element. It may be that way for some, but "I think" which of course means I don't know for sure, that it's that credibility that makes a sizeable element jealous and it becomes their goal to destroy that credibility while hiding behind an anomyous name. So in the end, a typical Usenet experience for a credible poster will be a mixture of intelligent discourse with the folks who know....and a constantly deteriorating experience with the second element. True, whether the second element is that way due to jealousy or lack of knowledge, or ... lack of ethics. Every poster will react differently to this Usenet experience. The bottom line on how long a credible poster will hang in on Usenet won't be found in that poster's experience with other credible posters. Invariably, it will depend entirely on just how much effect the poster absorbs from that second undesirable element. Everyone has a different tolerance level. Some quit early. Some don't mind it at all. Some like me just lose respect slowly for the Usenet concept and drift in and out as the mood hits them. For me, it's I guess I probably fall into that as I may not read the groups for a week of so and then I'm back to checking them while working on "other stuff". simply gone from useful and mutually respectful communication to what it is now......not much of anything really....just a sparring match every now and then with faceless people I don't know, and who surely don't know me! I think Mike got at least part of it with people coming across as more hostile on the news groups and even in e-mail as it is difficult to write what you are thinking in such a manner that those reading it get what your meant. The English language is full of ambiguities and much of our communications depends on inflection as well as proper use. Most of us have a terrible time conveying some concepts in speech. To get the same thing across properly in a typed message might take volumes. Like many of us who tend to get a bit...well... wordy... (like listening to an engineer explain something by starting with the details) people lose interest, or lost track of where we were going by the time we get to the point. However I do think there is a large element that feels invulnerable by remaining anomyous. An element that tends to be a bit antiauthoritarian and can not stand to be challenged or shown to be wrong. What are those rules in aviation. Antiauthoritarian, invulnerable, ... ? They basically get to act like little kids who didn't get their own way and can throw a tantrum because they figure no one will find out who they are. There have been proposals made that may end up doing away with the mail and news group anomizers. We may all have to post with valid addresses some day even if those addresses need to be changed every month or so. . Dudley Roger |
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