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OK so a newbie but I'm more pragmatic about this.
Any community, on-line or otherwise, that's worth joining or participating in comes with it's own rules and own culture. The analogy to joining a family is may be stretching it a bit but the point being that if you as the joiner see value in joining an existing community then that is generally because they have something you don't. Unless of course you are just joining to bestow yourself upon them
I think those of us who join need to play by the rules of entry or else not bother to join, free choice. There are plenty of other forums you see that end up with a high degree of pointless posts and spam, it just makes it more hassle for anyone trying to find the useful info and exchange it with others.
On the upside, thank you to the OP who provided a thread for us newbies to discuss this and increase our post count by +1
Any community, on-line or otherwise, that's worth joining or participating in comes with it's own rules and own culture. The analogy to joining a family is may be stretching it a bit but the point being that if you as the joiner see value in joining an existing community then that is generally because they have something you don't. Unless of course you are just joining to bestow yourself upon them
I think those of us who join need to play by the rules of entry or else not bother to join, free choice. There are plenty of other forums you see that end up with a high degree of pointless posts and spam, it just makes it more hassle for anyone trying to find the useful info and exchange it with others.
On the upside, thank you to the OP who provided a thread for us newbies to discuss this and increase our post count by +1
I generally agree with this, but if a forum, community or whatever wants to have new members it must also change to accommodate those members. Trite as the saying is, not everyone is the same, but they won't necessarily remove value by joining and effecting change.
