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Spiritedsub2 -> RE: The decline of collarme (1/11/2013 6:15:08 AM)
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ORIGINAL: TAFKAA
These people aren't just looking for information. For a dry recitation of facts. They're looking for interaction and discussion. The mistake many regulars make is to presume that the need which must be fulfilled is a lack of information - and that consequently, giving them information will satisfy that need.
There's a natural stratification of the membership based upon experience. The jaded need a place to hang out, but the newbies and those still developing benefit from being in a peer group which shares their excitement and sense of discovery. Without being able to readily find that peer group, they're not going to hang around long unless they have a humiliation fetish.
I'm fairly lost as to exactly where this thread is right now. So I'm back to the "send the newbies to read past threads" issue. I agree with TAFKAA on this. As a newbie, if all I wanted was dry information, I'd just read a handful of the books I picked up from the booklist thread and not bother with the forums.
I do like to traipse around through old threads; I found a great one about "making the first move" started a year or 2 ago by Epytropos, filled with lots of intelligent dissenting views and food for thought. I noticed though that most of the posters on that thread are gone from CM, so there is no ongoing interactive with them anymore.
I'd add something to TAFKAA's point. While long-time CM members have posted on the issues and questions that are raised in the past, time and experience have in most cases presumably "morphed" their views from the place of their original posts. I would hope most people change and grow over time and with experience, so I am interested in their views now, as much as 5 years ago, on a given topic. So here's hoping that people continue to post on "old news".
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