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At 01:25 PM 7/26/2006, loop.pool wrote: >I find myself in agreement with Steve Lawson (and many other old timers >who post here) that in earlier days the list was more pithy and >interesting to read because there wasn't so much chatter and there were >more substantive subjects. This is a problem I've also noticed getting worse in the last couple years. Off topic posting has gotten really bad lately. Sometimes there are dozens of messages posted to the list in a day, and none of them are about looping. Some individuals post constantly, yet almost never post about looping at all. Please remember, Looper's Delight exists to discuss, teach, promote, and communicate about looping. That is why everybody is here. Looping is what we should be posting about. This list is not here to discuss computer problems, or favorite VST effects, or DAW recommendations, or hex guitar pickups, or etc. (just to pick on a few random, recent off-topics.) If you are making a post and it is not explicitly about looping, you should really ask yourself 3 or 4 times before you send it: why you are about to waste hundreds of people's time with an off-topic post? Is this worth using up list bandwidth, taking up space in the digest, and storing in the archive forever? Just because you think this is an interesting group of people, or you think someone here might know the answer to your random question, isn't a good enough reason. Neither is excusing it by telling other people to delete if they don't want to read your off-topic post. Find a more appropriate place for that post. Partly I blame myself for this, because I haven't been participating here much lately. I used to make an effort to start interesting threads about looping when people wandered off-topic, to redirect the group's energy back towards looping again. This is pretty easy and works remarkably well. I appreciate some of the other list "veterans" who do this also. But even nicer would be people taking more responsibility for their own actions and behavior in this community, and keeping yourselves on topic. When the discussion really does stick to good looping threads, the really interesting list members come out of the woodwork to contribute their thoughts. Some of those "famous" loopers hang around more also. That's the way it used to be here, and with a little effort it will continue to be like that. kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com