[LMB] List Biz: about QOTD

[Pat Mathews]

I love it! I think the 3-day schedule is a good idea.

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> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 21:59:54 +0000
> From: tora.smulders at gmail.com
> To: lois-bujold at lists.herald.co.uk
> Subject: [LMB] List Biz: about QOTD
> 
> Hello my fellow LMB list members!
> 
> 
> That includes any of you reading this -- digest readers, lurkers, and
> archive readers -- this means you!
> 
> It has been exactly 2 weeks since I started this experiment of
> questions of the day (QOTDs) on an every other day basis.
> 
> I will tentatively call it a success so far as I can tell.
> 
> I'll list my thoughts below, but I'd like now to ask all of you (yes,
> every one of you reading this!) to let me know what you think of this
> exercise.
> 
> Is it something you'd like to see continue?  Something you'd like to
> see end?  Something you'd like to see more often (every day?) or less
> often (three times a week MWF or twice a week TTh)?
> 
> Questions submitted and chosen in a different way?  Somebody else to
> organize it?
> 
> Whatever you guys think about it -- reply to this message onlist or
> privately to me at tora.smulders at gmail.com.  Feel free not to respond
> if you already have.  I'll take those already sent onlist and offlist
> comments into consideration.
> 
> Basically, I'd like a consensus on where this should go.  I feel I've
> run it all myself as I please and I'd like a feel from the group
> before going further.
> 
> I'll email tomorrow's question as scheduled and we'll see from the
> replies where it goes from there.
> 
> 
> My summation:
> PROS:
> 1- new and interesting questions
> 2- quite well-thought out and insightful answers
> 3- some discussion of questions
> 4- some spin-off on topic discussion
> 5- much more overall on topic discussion on list
> 6- some more participation and/or interest from long-time lurkers, etc.
> 
> CONS:
> 1- increased list traffic?  hard to keep up with?
> 2- not so many other threads -- the QOTDs and spin-off questions
> dominate and there is less other on topic chat and possibly less off
> topic as well
> 
> 
> I was hoping for the Pros and am quite happy with how that turned out.
>  It's nice to see the Bujold list discuss Bujold's work as
> intelligently as always, but more of it.  However, I didn't mean for
> the QOTDs to monopolize all the list's energy.  But if the other
> listmembers don't mind that, then I'm okay with it too.  Because I'm
> really enjoying the questions you all send in and the answers.
> 
> I'd like to see it continue, and I'm happy to run it indefinitely, if
> you're all okay with that.  Just collecting and emailing out the
> questions is okay for me time-wise even when I'm very busy.  Monday,
> Wednesday, Friday might be a good schedule, perhaps?  Plus, I wouldn't
> mind thinking up some of my own questions to add in!  ;-)
> 
> 
> Thanks everyone,
> Tora
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