Wow. Just looked at my "home node." Been here off and on for FOUR years; I am but a lowly scribe. More OFF than ON, and I rarely vote... and I don't think I've ever voted down a post...

There was a period, years ago (literally) that I thought it would be cool to get a lot of XP. But then I found myself NOT adding to threads, fearing that I would be voted down for writing something that was "wrong."

This kills the point of web-as-collaborative-medium.

Seems to me that a good brainstorming session is full of "right" answers. But a great one is full of wrong answers with convincing counters.

If too many monks fall into the same trap I did early on and stick with it, then we all lose, as a community.

In many fields the veterans recognize some problems as unsolvable... the rookies, who don't know any better, poke around... and whaddayaknow? They solve them.

In reply to Re: Re: Can a Pontiff become an initiate in one night? by ok
in thread Can a Pontiff become an initiate in one night? by Anonymous Monk

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