David E. Cohen wrote:
>
> "Del Dingle" <dcdingle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:WIF2j.2504$4q5.2437@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 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
>
>
> It may be that certain forums are quite slow (here and Cat23 come to
mind),
> but others are quite active. Perhaps it is just cyclical, though I
suspect
> the advent of a lot of full-featured Dip bulletin boards, and the
> convenience and ubiquity (a 50 cent word there!) of yahoogroups may
tend to
> make the decline here somewhat more lasting
>
And if they are better fora for fostering discussion, so be it. The
traffic will be driven by the quality of content.
-Del
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