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

From: Graham Ensor <graham.ensor_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 22:50:05 +0000
Message-ID: <CAJkn+kbvdw86jUkwML=Ez+Lw54z=FbbZ1Ds82eYoH4odGTMmag_at_mail.gmail.com>

"Like" ;-)


On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Carl Agee <agee at unm.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>
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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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