Thursday, October 30, 2003
THE DEAD ZONE: (as crossposted from the Tiny Money forum) It's painfully obvious at this point that the Tiny Money Land forum has been a nonstarter...
I blame two things: first, there's the fact that I haven't really talked up the room. Naturally, there's a very good reason for that. We've had a lot of people who've started a message board/chatroom combo on Delphi and basically ended up talking to themselves. Some have ended up to this way due to community apathy, others becasue they're a bit overzealous in their moderation. Either way, I blame the "talking to empty walls syndrome" on the strict rules that don't allow pet ownership in some apartment complex...that and bad hygene. Either way, once it became obvious, I've been taking my general chatter to where the people are.
The other, of course, is due to the fact that everybody on the face of the earth and their brother has a forum on Delphi. Hell, just in our little subcommunity (if you're a Delphi drifter, just check the pulldown list...then check THEIR pulldown lists) we're smeared all over with microfocused forums.
Either way, it was all about me, and I'm very easy to find in other places.
Still, I'm going to leave the forum up as a tribute to the notion that they'll let ANYBODY be a "wizard" on the Internet, even if the only spells a would-be Merlin has are a few lame card tricks that don't work properly because he can't force the 2 of Clubs properly. Also, it'll be a good staging ground for putting up blogcentric polls. Hell, somebody might even post again.
So, once again, I cordially invite you to the house where nobody lives (officially, anyway). Please try not to step in the authority on the way in.
I blame two things: first, there's the fact that I haven't really talked up the room. Naturally, there's a very good reason for that. We've had a lot of people who've started a message board/chatroom combo on Delphi and basically ended up talking to themselves. Some have ended up to this way due to community apathy, others becasue they're a bit overzealous in their moderation. Either way, I blame the "talking to empty walls syndrome" on the strict rules that don't allow pet ownership in some apartment complex...that and bad hygene. Either way, once it became obvious, I've been taking my general chatter to where the people are.
The other, of course, is due to the fact that everybody on the face of the earth and their brother has a forum on Delphi. Hell, just in our little subcommunity (if you're a Delphi drifter, just check the pulldown list...then check THEIR pulldown lists) we're smeared all over with microfocused forums.
Either way, it was all about me, and I'm very easy to find in other places.
Still, I'm going to leave the forum up as a tribute to the notion that they'll let ANYBODY be a "wizard" on the Internet, even if the only spells a would-be Merlin has are a few lame card tricks that don't work properly because he can't force the 2 of Clubs properly. Also, it'll be a good staging ground for putting up blogcentric polls. Hell, somebody might even post again.
So, once again, I cordially invite you to the house where nobody lives (officially, anyway). Please try not to step in the authority on the way in.
|| Eric 10:16 PM#
