Re: [AGA-mcm] AGA and internet forums

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

A forum has the personality and content of whoever posts on
it. They are all pretty much the same, imo. Some busier
than others; some will have a few expert stars for a while
but that seems transient.

Otoh, there is nothing else like TAG, not in English
anyway.  The splant tuff in AFM or TFH? Not even close,
imo.

The big stumbling block to doing an AGA forum is not that
there are already plenty of plant forums out there or that
(some) moderators would probably have to come from existing
forums, but that we have never had anyone that was willing
to make the long term commitment to admininstering it. A
one-year commitment isn't enough, forums take longer than
that to grow. They take about two years just to become well
established -- trafficked enough to compensate for the
turnover in users.

I think that hey take about 5 years to complete their life
cycle except in rare cases. In terms of life span, it's a
lot like opening a restaurant. Many are started, most
struggle for a year or two, most are washed up within 5
years. I don't think AGA is afraid to risk having a forum
that's washed up in five years, but we don't want to risk
something going for just a year then falling apart because
we don't have the forum staff resources to keep it going.

Anyway, we've never had anyone willing to commit for more
than a year.

I don't think there is anything else stopping the AGA from
having forums.

sh

--- Larry Lampert <l_lampert@yahoo.com> wrote:
>  . . isn't a forum just as relevant as TAG especially
> when
> trying to reach out to the new Internet generation?
> 
> I understand the limitations of the people and time we
> have, but I also think that we could find the person
> or persons within the AGA who could take on the
> project and do it right. The way that we would want it
> done. Yeah, I know the arguments for not doing it
> there are already a dozen, they go out of fashion,
> there is no one who will do it, etc but these are all
> just obstacles that can be overcome.

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