<VV> New modern Forum: younger member chimes in!

[Tony Underwood]

At 09:13 AM 12/6/2009, Ken Wildman wrote:
>Ray:
>
>I understand where you are coming from.  I participate on a number of such
>forums and they do provide a lot of well-organized information.
>
>But, (you knew there had to be a "but" <grin>) they also lack the most
>satisfying aspect of VV -- the free exchange of random information.  There
>is a spontaneity here that disappears when the discussion becomes too
>formally organized.



Ken just hit it.  VV is a bunch of car people who hang out to talk 
about their favorite marque and share anecdotes and tips and answer 
(sometimes) questions.   It's this free wheeling environment and the 
advantages it offers over a strictly regulated and controlled forum 
that makes VV successful.

A methodically arbitrary (how's that for an annoyingly contradictory 
phrase) and strictly regulated forum loses all that and eventually 
will become boring, little more than a dictionary that's not arranged 
in alphabetical order.

Annoying content:   In VV we can knock ideas around and 'blow them 
up' or reinforce them according to participation by the list 
membership without the list Gestapo shouting "Off Topic!" at every 
turn.   The moderators here are quite good at watching out for the 
list without being tyrants and seldom ever have any issues with its 
constituency.



tony..   been a participant in lists where, not just non-canon or 
off-topic, but *any* --off-subject-- content at all without changing 
the subject line AND providing reasons for such, would result in 
ejection from the list or at best, suspension and THAT is the 
definition of ANNOYING which WILL (and has) resulted in the demise of 
the list for lack of participation

PS  VV suffers not this      usually