Del Dingle <dcdingle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>Chris Babcock wrote:
>> Tired of spam? "Games group, 'Buy a vending machine!'" and "This is a
>> diplomacy group, maybe someone will give a crap about my marginal
>> political opinion." If there's interest, it may be time for a charter
>> discussion about a moderated group. Are we satisfied with the signal to
>> noise ratio? If not, what lengths are willing to go to in order to have
>> a healthy Usenet channel available?
>>
>> Chris
>What signal, Chris? I count barely ten Diplomacy posts per month here.
> There's no discussion of strategy. No FtF or RT meetings scheduled
>anymore. Rarely do people post for replacements compared to the number
>of games langui****ng for months on the Pouch Listings page. The Pouch
>itself (which I love dearly) is plagued with broken links. The last
>comparison of traffic on the Lowe judges compared to other judges was
>very disappointing.
>Yes. We need more volunteers to maintain the Diplomatic Pouch, handle
>the queued newbies waiting for games, and to keep things moving, but the
>question I would pose for this thread is, "Has interest in Diplomacy
>declined enough to threaten closure of some online resources?"
>-Del
Good points all, Del. One of the problems, of course, with strategy
discussions is that it's all been posted before..... but of course Joe or
Jane didn't post it, and we can welcome them into the community by
answering their questions.
I think the thing I'm feeling in general, in the Zeitgeist, is that we're
all too busy these days. Doesn't it seem that everyone you talk to tells
you that 2007 has been the busiest year they've ever had? I know it's
been that way for me. I'm going home from work today early to work on
langui****ng Dip things.
Jim-Bob
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