Raccoon
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Dear Moo,
Could you please, at your convenience, create a Mission Statement describing what you want ADISC to be? This would help us be better in synch with achieving it.
I suspect since ADISC changes in nature over time with respect to advances in technology, it size, membership input, and the results of various experiments, you may well prefer to define this in terms of what ADISC aims to DO, it goals, rather than its state.
I assume that we want to be a tight-knit community, a welcoming place for newbies and veterans alike, directly supportive in terms of information, advice, and moral support, and indirectly (though equally importantly) supportive through fostering close and meaningful interpersonal relationships. But how we are to attain this - according to YOUR opinion, YOUR vision, isn't always completely clear.
For instance, to what extent should we rely on newcomers to figure out for themselves how to fit in, as opposed to teaching them, leading them, even coddling them?
Are we moving back to an organic growth model - where people find their own way here, and expend effort to learn our ways?
Or do we want to go all out to grow fast, mandating new ways to ensure newbies are not simply greeted but are given other ways and means to be incorporated into our social fabric?
Are there set quantifiables, like an ideal size, rate of growth, average growth in rep/member/day - or are these flexible and subordinate to qualitative, descriptive goals?
I pose these ideas as points to consider, not as pointed questions demanding a specific answer. You built the site, incorporating all the features that made it what it is; I merely ask for some guidance so we all are on the same page.
Could you please, at your convenience, create a Mission Statement describing what you want ADISC to be? This would help us be better in synch with achieving it.
I suspect since ADISC changes in nature over time with respect to advances in technology, it size, membership input, and the results of various experiments, you may well prefer to define this in terms of what ADISC aims to DO, it goals, rather than its state.
I assume that we want to be a tight-knit community, a welcoming place for newbies and veterans alike, directly supportive in terms of information, advice, and moral support, and indirectly (though equally importantly) supportive through fostering close and meaningful interpersonal relationships. But how we are to attain this - according to YOUR opinion, YOUR vision, isn't always completely clear.
For instance, to what extent should we rely on newcomers to figure out for themselves how to fit in, as opposed to teaching them, leading them, even coddling them?
Are we moving back to an organic growth model - where people find their own way here, and expend effort to learn our ways?
Or do we want to go all out to grow fast, mandating new ways to ensure newbies are not simply greeted but are given other ways and means to be incorporated into our social fabric?
Are there set quantifiables, like an ideal size, rate of growth, average growth in rep/member/day - or are these flexible and subordinate to qualitative, descriptive goals?
I pose these ideas as points to consider, not as pointed questions demanding a specific answer. You built the site, incorporating all the features that made it what it is; I merely ask for some guidance so we all are on the same page.