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Dec. 29th, 2007 11:09 pmI CAN HAS COBRA TICKETS! I now have tickets for both Boston Cobra shows. Hurrah! The RL friend I'm going to the evening show looked at me funny when I asked if I should buy him a ticket to the afternoon show as well, so I may end up with an extra for the 1pm show. What with the tickets selling out the evening show and all, I figured I'd be able to pass it on to someone else, if need be.
I skimmed through the anonymeme, but I tried to avoid the threads that were full of serious dislike and stick with the ones that were full of lulz, which have mostly already been copiously linked to. At the risk of sounding incredibly New Age-y, that much negativity actually does make me kind of uncomfortable, so I just tried to stay away.
One thing, though, loosely precipitated by something I saw: I honestly do not understand communities (or individual journals, though I think I've only seen in comms) that demand participation. I mean, I can understand wanting participation and comments full of glee and all that - no one wants a dead comm. But I don't think that banning lurkers is going to convert lurkers into participants - just decrease the total number of people reading*.
I guess (and I'm totally just thinking out loud here) that this might be tied to the assumption that if you like something, you're going to dive right in? Or something? But I know that there are lots of comment threads whose existence I take great glee in, even if I'm not actively participating, so that can't be it.
I don't know. If you have an explanation, I'd love to hear it.
*This may not be true for lurkers who are not me. Your mileage, of course, may vary.
I skimmed through the anonymeme, but I tried to avoid the threads that were full of serious dislike and stick with the ones that were full of lulz, which have mostly already been copiously linked to. At the risk of sounding incredibly New Age-y, that much negativity actually does make me kind of uncomfortable, so I just tried to stay away.
One thing, though, loosely precipitated by something I saw: I honestly do not understand communities (or individual journals, though I think I've only seen in comms) that demand participation. I mean, I can understand wanting participation and comments full of glee and all that - no one wants a dead comm. But I don't think that banning lurkers is going to convert lurkers into participants - just decrease the total number of people reading*.
I guess (and I'm totally just thinking out loud here) that this might be tied to the assumption that if you like something, you're going to dive right in? Or something? But I know that there are lots of comment threads whose existence I take great glee in, even if I'm not actively participating, so that can't be it.
I don't know. If you have an explanation, I'd love to hear it.
*This may not be true for lurkers who are not me. Your mileage, of course, may vary.