[meteorite-list] meteorite-list] List is getting torpid

From: Carl Agee <agee_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:44:45 -0600
Message-ID: <CADYrzhrULfYdnDdp_Gu2rRm15oio5X14zpCY=2GS_DeZ-FFW3w_at_mail.gmail.com>

What the list misses is Facebook's "Like" button. That was a brilliant
idea of FB that allows people to semi-lurk, especially if they don't
have time to write a long comment -- which also sometimes can be a
blessing! I'm sure there are many 'likes' of list posts, we just never
get to see them -- and it can feel silent.


Carl Agee
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Galactic Stone & Ironworks
<meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote:
> Every now and then, one of the scientists will post something very
> interesting and educational. Some of the best planetary-scientists in
> the world lurk on this List and they occasionally post some really
> fascinating stuff. I think what we are experiencing here, in part, is
> a drain of posts going from the List to Facebook. Many regular
> posters here on the List are now very active on Facebook. And, people
> have a tendency to forget the good quickly and then hang on to the bad
> indefinitely. It's selective memory. In the last couple of months.
> we have had thought-provoking discussions about meteorites and
> planetary science. Doctors Rubin, Agee, Bunch, Korotev, Grossman,
> (and several others who I cannot recall at the moment), often jump in
> to a discussion to provide interesting and useful insights. Those
> posts just get forgotten quickly for some reason.
>
> In my 6+ years on the List, I have seen a roller coaster of activity -
> sometimes busy, sometimes not. And, there are actually fewer ads now
> than there used to be years ago. Many of the people that used to post
> ads are now gone and we haven't heard from them much at all in recent
> years. New dealers have come on to the scene and they post ads, but
> it seems to me that the number of ads has not increased - it just
> seems that why because fewer people are posting in general - so the
> ads are more noticeable.
>
> Facebook is a great resource, but it will never replace the Met-List. :)
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> On 3/10/14, Bob Loeffler <bloeffler at peaktopeak.com> wrote:
>> "In this day and age, people want their posts to be instant, how it was on
>> meteorite central before the over haul."
>>
>> Hi Shawn,
>>
>> In this day and age, posts via EMAIL are pretty much instantaneous. I have
>> never gone to the website to read or post messages for this list. Is there
>> a reason why you do that instead of just getting the posts instantly via
>> email? IMO, reading messages in a list such as this on a website is
>> archaic, but maybe you have your reasons. I used to do that on Compuserve
>> 20 to 25 years ago, but why go to different websites for all of the
>> community groups that you "read" instead of having the messages all sent
>> automatically to email? It's easy to set up rules in email apps so that
>> you
>> have all of the MetList emails in one folder, all of the
>> Pizza-is-yummy-Society emails in another folder, etc. But like I said,
>> maybe you have your reasons.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Bob L.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
>> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Shawn
>> Alan
>> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 1:35 PM
>> To: Meteorite Central
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] meteorite-list] List is getting torpid
>>
>> Hello Listers
>>
>> My two cents
>>
>> The List went quite ish when Art did the over haul and personal I don't go
>> to the website any more because the posts arent instant. Right now, if you
>> go to Meteorite Central the latest post is from March 5th. In this day and
>> age, people want their posts to be instant, how it was on meteorite central
>> before the over haul. Now it take weeks before a post shows up on the
>> website, not sure why Art did this, but it sounds like its hurting the
>> website then helping it. Art, I wish the website went back to the way it
>> was, I would go to the website 10 to 15 times a day if not more, now I
>> don't
>> go, I have a link to some MC mail list that shows the postings, but for
>> real
>> time use on Meteorite Central its dated and not prevalent to current trends
>> in social media and how websites work today with instant posting. Please
>> fix
>> Meteorite Central Art to how it was :)
>>
>> Shawn Alan
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