Lachlan Brown on Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:48:06 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> Re: Bolders |
J, I wouldn't worry about it too much, people tend to browse bold via the web site archive when there's clearly something going on in the digest; otherwise people who are terminally engaged in some ongoing project tend to consume pretty much all there is in Nettime bold. Its a good source for news on new projects too. But only to be dipped into occasionally otherwise you become a Nettime Bolder Space Cadet First Class, with Distinction. I think the moderators do a good job considering the sheer volume of Nettime stuff. They don't catch everything but do present representitive posts and try to stop the thing getting in a rut. The only non-bold posts they do are when they wheel out ancient hacks like my good friend Sean 'the Baptist' Cubitt to tell us about the good bread he bakes and how 'net.art' is destined to redefine the globe as we know it. I also happen to know that it was (not sure if it still is now that the heat has gone out of the techbubble) perused avidly by commercial and governmental monitors anxious to be au fait with the terms of the 'digital revolution'. For this reason I doubt any Nettimers will be rounded up in this Coup, even if they do write odes to bin Laden. Collectively, including all those heavyweight lurkers, they are Far Too Powerful to mess with. They have startling insight. They hold Opinion on matters the rest of the media and communications world has not yet considered. Lachlan Brown bolders, As you might have noticed nettime-bold is not taken seriously at all by the nettime moderators. If you look at the list archives you will see that many if not most of the mails on nettime have never ever been on bold. Nettime-bold, which was supposed to be the unmoderated version of nettime, is simply used as nettime's trashcan. Of course the moderators never really wanted an unmoderated version of nettime, and it took more then two years of complaining about the way moderation was handled and applied before bold was finally created at all. The situation at present reeks of sabotage to me. My question to you is: do you think it makes any sense to keep nettime bold if it shows hardly anything of nettime? There are plenty of other unmoderated lists. Should we protest against this ungoing stupidification of bold? -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup 1 cent a minute calls anywhere in the U.S.! http://www.getpennytalk.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=RG9853KJ&url=http://www.getpennytalk.com # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net