[Theforum] Inviting other people
Madhu Menon
webguru at vsnl.net
Mon Nov 19 12:52:05 CST 2001
At 11:39 PM 11/19/2001, A. Erickson opined:
>How would we repair the damage (if we consider it such) of ten new
>articles each day if they are all crap? How do we lure back quality
>subscribers if our list turns into ranting newbies (recalling
>monkeyjunkies)?
Part 1)
Ten crap articles each day: This is simple. There are admin gods who go
through the articles and evaluate their merit. This should eliminate total
crud, and get articles up to at least an "average" level.
Could one of the admins please let us know how many (absolute or
percentage) article submissions you've rejected in the past?
Part 2)
I'm not sure what "ranting newbies" do (since I've never witnessed it on
thelist, and never was subscribed to MJ), but is that they post OT
comments? If so, a gentle reminder (unlike the dictatorial ways of, cough,
another list) seems to have worked well for us in the past, has it not?
Is it that they ask too many "newbie" questions? That's not a bad thing and
we shouldn't position this list as some place where only the gurus can ask
"advanced" questions. I was just chatting with Dan and he said that only
ONE person has ever been kicked off thelist in 3 years, unlike *cough*
other lists (right, Jeff? ;)
The way I see it, we now have 2500 members, and most of them are not
newbies. Even if a few come in tomorrow, we can handle it. There's more
than enough knowledge floating around and I don't see a real danger of
thelist being overrun by ranting newbies.
Regards,
Madhu
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