Meaningless, Boring, Unenjoyable

I cound not agree more. I used to enjoy this newsgroup, but have not
been able
to for quite a while now. It is just not worth it anymore.

Big Dale


this place becomes more boring every day, for me.

yfitons
wayno



Don´t really know why I even bother reading or posting at all
anymore. Like
a number of other things it has become almost meaningless.

TL
MC


Each one of us looks to ROFF for his or her own reasons. ROFF is simply
a compilation of people's posts and the character of ROFF is based on
the character of those posts. If you don't like the "character" of ROFF,
there are a variety of things you can do. The most obvious are not read
it or post to it, complain about it, contribute to it in a way that
will alter the character in a way you would like to see it move or
contribute to the "character" you don't like.

Not reading it will have no impact on its content (nor will JUST reading
it). Complaining about it, although it is somehow satisfying, seems to
have only minimal impact (and much of that impact might well be the
opposite of what you want to see). It seems to me that if you
want to see a ROFF that's interesting and rewarding to you, the only way
to do that is to post and to post in a manner that contributes to the
"character" you would like to see in ROFF. Flames foster flames, hate
fosters hate, good posts foster more good posts.

I'm not sure why it is (the reasons for this are interesting to me) but
it seems that it's much easier to write a flame or criticize or name
call or become "personal" or ......... than it is to write "constructive"
comments. For some reason (again kinda interesting to me) these
negative types of posts also tend to generate lots of interest
and are self perpetuating. IMO, it's FAR more difficult to come up with
"positive" things of interest to others, and even more difficult to come
up with "positive" things that generate discussion. Many of the posts I
like to read are of a type that don't generate much in the way of
discussion. A good example of that was Conan's post of his wife's
photos. I really liked seeing them and they're the type of post I'd like
to see more of but they don't generate discussion - what do you say
after "nice photos"?

Although you can interact (or not) in ROFF in pretty much any manner
that you please, complaining about the state of ROFF without
contributing to it in what YOU see as a positive manner, seems pretty
futile to me. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that if you want
to see a ROFF that at least approaches your image of what ROFF should
be, you need make the effort to post something of "value".

Willi