it's not the discussion, it's the discussion format

• From: ater31337 <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:08:49 -0000
• Message-ID: <bjr2qh+ib8q_at_...>

Personally, I think this problem is more reflective of this board
itself than of the way it is being used.  Without any means of
condensing discussions in seperate threads to keep things topical or
any division of forums to accomodate the different aspects of the game
people wish to discuss, the end result is often a painfully
disorganized mess where flamewars, theory discussions, advice
requests, and tournament announcements all crowd each other's space
and make things hard to follow.  Oh, and the frequent advertisments
suck too.

So, an apology for what basically amounts to a thread hijack and a
shill, but I still recommend you and other readers check out Matt
Weiner's college forums ( at hsquizbowl.org ).  The format is far
superior and keeps different forums for different discussion themes;
that way you can browse your announcements and information threads
without reading flames, and people who want to can make relevant
criticisms of other posters without random people butting in and
patronizing them.

I just don't get why so much of the circuit continues to use the
inferior Yahoo group format when far better options are out there.
Problems like this (among others) would not come up on a forum with
divided topics and threading.  Anyway, I'll probably keep using Yahoo
since so many people in the circuit do, but I really hope people
realize there are other options and migrate elsewhere.

--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, "Alan Lamb" <smallsheep3_at_h...> wrote:
> Uhh.. when I signed up for this list, I assumed it was going to be
about 
> good quizbowl topics like, "UCLA has a comp. coming up", or "I would
like a 
> good source of quiz questions".  I do not think that those of us who
dont 
> know the other people on this list by name will get much out of
personal 
> insults.  Let's try to keep those to a minimum, thank you.
> 
> Alan Lamb
> TAMS Quizbowl Chair
> 
> >From: "Matt Weiner" <darwins_bulldog1138_at_y...>
> >Reply-To: quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com
> >To: <quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com>
> >Subject: Re: [quizbowl] Trivial Pursuit and Quizbowl
> >Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:55:42 -0400
> >
> >More likely, they objected to you. There are plenty of teams who
can expose
> >new people to qb without essentially doing an entirely different
activity
> >under the name of "quizbowl." None of these teams contain a person
who has
> >publicly bashed his teammates (when he's not bashing
non-Christians, 
> >tornado
> >victims, or the state of Kansas.)
> >
> >Get someone who is not you to explain the extremely complex and
difficult
> >connection between *quizbowl* and *quizbowl questions* and people
will be
> >more receptive.
> >
> 
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