Re: [Leica] LUGforum and feuds?

[Paul Hardy Carter <carterph@wanadoo.es>]

Rob:

I don't know if I'm lurking or not, as I have posted a few times. But I'm new here and I'm just getting used to the ambiance or this place. All in all I like it.

There seems to be a few technical people sitting at a table by the door occasionally raising their voices about integrity, an amiable bunch in the middle of the room swapping travel stories and showing each other pictures, some wheeler-dealers over there in the dark corner buying and selling stuff, a number of folks sitting around the walls with drinks in their hands, silently watching, and a couple of belligerent drunks at the bar trying to start a fight.

I really don't believe in walking into a new place and commencing to tell everyone there how to behave, but some of things I've read here are astonishing. I've always thought an email group is like a debating society, with people putting forward propositions and hearing what other people think, but the fundamental rule of such debates is that you only take the floor if you have something to say that sheds new light on the subject. Some people here seem to like the sound of their own voices a little too much, and believe critical attack to be the highest form of intellectual discourse.

So in answer to your question - Why lurk? - I don't think of it as lurking, just waiting until I have something useful to say on a particular subject.

Paul.
(Hoping that he's increasing the signal and not the noise.)


At 9:07 +0200, 28/9/02, Rob Appleby wrote:
>I think this is the first time anything has come down the lugforum pipe for
>months. It never seems to get used, - maybe the concept is a bit flawed. If
>you start something in one forum, it seems strange to continue it in
>another.
>
>I do wonder though what the silent majority are subscribed for. Why lurk? It
>doesn't make much sense to me.
>
>-- Rob
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