Imagine the forums being directly emailed to your inbox, now you too know what the community_round_table newsgroup is like.

I at first thought the idea was a good one. Having news about the Commity Round Table and events emailed to stay informed about what happened and what was going on. Also introducing topics that could perhaps be discussed. I believe this was the intention of LL.

As I attempt to write this I have recieved 7 emails from the newsgroup, this may be normal for a usual newsgroup, but newsgroups don’t usualy contain such pointless replies as this does and I would never purposely subscribe to a newsgroups that contains such drama.

The commity round table was made so that members of the community and Lindens in charge of the community could discuss things openly, usualy in a campfire type setting. The meetings usualy go well since the introduction of the soap box, the first meeting was a mess with certain… “residents” causing their usual drama.

Anyway, the current format of the newsgroup for the CRT is horrible and needs to be fixed as soon as LL can. Suggestions that can solve the problem is to have some interface that we can read and post the messages, or even just posting on the forums and keeping the newsgroup for official LL announcements on the CRT.

Edit: I should mention that LL is not totaly inept or encouraging of bad behavior. In the onslaught of emails that occured Adam Linden was maintaining to the best of his power some sense of order. I don’t blame LL for others somewhat mis-use of the newsletter, but rather the lack of percievement of such situations and action to counter-act such a thing to a better degree (i.e. have a better place for discussion).

Also there is not a consistant flurry of emails as there would be if I actualy had the forums emailed to me. But rather its a kind of chain-of-events, with one email potentialy setting off a trove of others in it’s path. A mostly rare occurence but a highly annoying one when it happens.

I’m afraid this may sound a little stereotypical…

I’ve never been one for blogs, I generally don’t read them except on rare occasions here and there (Torley’s every now and then, various SL dev blogs casually, William Gibson’s and “The Waiter Dude”s when I think of them), and I’ve never tried writing one. At least not an actual, blog kinda dealy with all that typical blog kinda crap. I have used a blog for different things though, writings of short stories, posting conversations I have with people (which is kinda more true of a blog than a blog itself).

So why? Because Torley made me do it.

I should clarify about this a bit more, since Torley is certainly no villain and the prior statement kinda sounds otherwise. Torley said I should try having a blog or some sort where I can spout off my thoughts. I don’t think of myself as that interesting that people would really care to read what I think, but I can’t argue with Torley… Well I could, just not very well I imagine.

Another reason is that I like writing. Which is one of the reasons I write articles to the History Wiki and why I write other random pieces of fiction (NOT fan-fiction). I used to also participate in the forums more, but most of the threads there now are so negative I keep out of most sections, restricting myself to glaze over the General for anything of worth, then hopping through Feature Feedback and finally ending my Forum journey on Announcements (unless there’s something obvious to check out in any of those sections, then I go directly to them). So I’ve lost my main place where I gave my ideas about things, for awhile Adam Zaius had setup slblogger I think it was called, which was awesome, and which I found to be interesting to read and would be posting this too, or my ideas too, but that’s gone since the software it was using is holier than Jebus himself.

So this is my attempt I guess to output things to. I have to get things out of my head or they keep me up at night, this will help me with that.

I may wander from SL things to other things as well… I’m not really sure.
We’ll see where this road of internets takes me/you/us.