What do you think?
TG
I have a "love/hate" relationship with this list. I love it for allowing me to stay connected with discussions of science/theology issues. I don't post very often, and when I do, it is usually to ask a question. Then, I look forward to reading the comments of those who have something helpful to contribute because of their advanced study or experience with that topic.
However, I hate having to weed through 30+ messages per day. The greater the number of posts, the fewer that I open even to skim. When there are lots of comments on a thread of interest to me, I only open those posted by the two or three people that I've learned have something interesting or helpful to contribute. No doubt, there are some useful contributions by others, but I just don't have the time to open them all to check. And even those "favorite" contributors who are capable of composing useful posts often fail to do so because they get caught up in making quick replies to more trivial posts.
In other words, the substantive posts on this list are really important me, but it's hard to find those anymore amongst all the drivel.
Here's my proposal for a solution: ALLOW ONLY ONE POST PER PERSON PER DAY. This will require participants to choose the one previous post that is most important to reply to instead of contributing to banter. It will ensure that participants refrain from perpetuating those less relevant threads. Participants will be forced to save up several thoughts about a thread and synthesize them into more meaningful posts. Also, it will allow room for contributions from participants like myself who can only check the postings once a day; we will finally have a chance to contribute to a thread before the "chat-room" types exhaust the subject or already diverted it to a different direction.
In my opinion, making this one change can correct about 75% of the current list problems.
Doug
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