Those people "should" shut up :-) Seriously. Maybe publish your own blog instead of telling fantastic writers and photographers like Kirk what they sh*uld do!!!! C'mon grow up!
I agree with Roland. It's presumptuous to tell a volunteer blog write what to write about, particularly when historically the blog content has been strong and varied. I'm for whatever you want to write about.
It's the familiarity that does it I think. They feel at home here and the natural outcome of that is that they feel they should have a say in what goes on here. It's inevitable and probably happens in every social setting.
It might be a hazard of online meeting places that some comments are assigned more importance that they should. In a meeting with 23 people physically present, if someone makes a comment that the others find irrelevant then they just ignore it, end of story. But in an online setting, that one comment may have undue influence that it would not have in a real-world setting because you can't count all the people who don't make comments. And those might outnumber the critical voice 100 to 1.
I pretty much have black friday fatigue this year, have scrolled through a few stores but seeing "1000 items" in the list makes it all seem a bit overwhelming, but I do need to pick up a few things, I'm going to make one of those shopping lists, someone I knew in the UK is working for chinese state media, just looked her up again out of curiousity and she's still there, her linkedin says she "chooses news stories that advance strategic objectives", but her boss builds concentration camps etc, all too weird for me
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Those people "should" shut up :-) Seriously. Maybe publish your own blog instead of telling fantastic writers and photographers like Kirk what they sh*uld do!!!! C'mon grow up!
I agree with Roland. It's presumptuous to tell a volunteer blog write what to write about, particularly when historically the blog content has been strong and varied. I'm for whatever you want to write about.
It's the familiarity that does it I think. They feel at home here and the natural outcome of that is that they feel they should have a say in what goes on here. It's inevitable and probably happens in every social setting.
It might be a hazard of online meeting places that some comments are assigned more importance that they should. In a meeting with 23 people physically present, if someone makes a comment that the others find irrelevant then they just ignore it, end of story. But in an online setting, that one comment may have undue influence that it would not have in a real-world setting because you can't count all the people who don't make comments. And those might outnumber the critical voice 100 to 1.
Generally, the louder the opinion, the less knowledge.
"Empty vessels make most noise".
Publish their comments, and invite us to respond for you ;)
I pretty much have black friday fatigue this year, have scrolled through a few stores but seeing "1000 items" in the list makes it all seem a bit overwhelming, but I do need to pick up a few things, I'm going to make one of those shopping lists, someone I knew in the UK is working for chinese state media, just looked her up again out of curiousity and she's still there, her linkedin says she "chooses news stories that advance strategic objectives", but her boss builds concentration camps etc, all too weird for me
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