Since I post in this forum, I also care to my environment.
I can spot very interesting topics, links and personal opinions, but not many
of those. I’m sure you are aware of some of those.
To me it look like Babylon Tower of the 21st century. It’s not only EU forum but all
forums on the internet suffering the same disadvantages :
1. Linear posting, replies and viewing : If post reply # 24 in a thread is very interesting and
thorough, then post #25 or #26 could be “empty” / changing of subject / full of links / opposite
opinion / personal reply, etc. Then #24 - is gone from the other readers view (since they
will read the last two posts), stripped from it’s value and meaning. No matter if
Albert Einstein himself will post his “Final Relativity“ theory. No matter if this is a breakthrough
point in science - it’s gone.
That happen because of the poor systems of the “internet forums” - they are all linear
Some entrepreneur should change it one day to a system that simulate a “meeting room” full of
people and that each person can talk and hear only with other personals that he/she have
chemistry with. Or only listen to selected personal without the necessity to contribute.
When everyone can meet anyone, talk and reply - it’s artificial. If it would happen in real
life - this system will collapse (by loosing interest).
Also If you go down a thread (of 300 - 1,500 post-replies), from the beginning to it’s end - you
want to stop only at the best posts or links, otherwise - it’s a waste of your time….
2. Too much information : To honestly explore the universe we don’t need much internet.
What we need is some basic information, mainly from books !!! Some internet websites
(much less then we think we need). And a lot of physical observations - tests, OUR
conclusions, OUR opinion, OUR words, OUR theories. No worry to be wrong, no big
deal once you realized that. 95% of the information available today on each topic, is
not necessary - But very very tempting. And because it’s tempting it will diverting from
your focus and eventually you will find yourself in an orbit.
3. Confusing terminology : Many times I read “The centrifugal force, that cause by the
plasmatic oscillation, create an electric charge that separate the photons from their
electrons, which cause an immediate negative charge to deflect the positron…..”
If I will ask you only 10 questions about each of the terms you are using, examining
how deep your understanding goes - you’ll get to a dead end very quickly, not because
of I know more then you, or I asked tricky questions, but because these terms are EMPTY
unless you have a SOUND BASE. Unless your understanding brought you there, not others
theories and explanations - It goes back to yourself and have nothing to do with science.
So, we are posting and replying using terms we don’t deeply understanding and read others
Terms which we don’t really understanding (only think or have associations that we do).
And the “harmony of chaos" - is the conductor….
4. Quality of posts : Whether it’s brilliant, funny, stupid, dam or just boring, really does not
matter, as long as it’s coming from you. The best cover ups are : “saying a lot and saying
nothing”, “pretending to know”, “using complex wording, math and terms”, sending to links
and other websites which you agree but cannot explain or understand them completely, etc.
The best posts I saw are coming from contributor’s understanding and some interesting links.
Some contributors are “Machine Gun Posters”, they are everywhere all over the place, posting
in an incredible speed, some posts can be very interesting but most are “missing bullets”.
5. People with no face : Well, that’s the internet. The good and the bad are always go together.
When it comes to internet forum, some “human inherited features” comes into play.
Above all is the artificial system that avoiding and re-routing the “real - life experience”
to other channels - a computer screen full of opinions and information.
And here we are missing an important ingredient - “the personal touch” and together with
that it’s really hard to reach a goal, good communication and interaction which leads to
accomplishment.
6. Broken communication : The paradox here is that the forum exists so people can
communicate with each other, but if you take a close look it’s actually many sections of
broken communications. Even in the same thread you can rarely find the thread between
more then 3 - 5 posts in a row… And the illusion of communicating last very short terms.
7. What is the goal here ? If it’s to mingle, exchange thoughts, links, videos, argue, etc.
Then there is a great benefit to internet forums, “It provide the merchandise”.
When it come to : working as a group, getting down to conclusions, focusing on a thread,
“Leaving the meeting with feeling of accomplishment” - It does not do the job.
Conclusions : Babylon Tower is already here. To educate other - it’s impossible, but being
yourself and follow your understanding - is possible. Also developing forum programs that
allow the administrators to highlight or isolate quality posts, without hearting other contributors
feelings. A much more individual program that could introduce the “matching personals” - could help.
Special thanks to the EU Moderators and Administrator - although you are carry heavy load of
work running EU forum, you are doing a great service, much of it behind the scene.
Since EU is a newborn forum, it have the potential to manage itself like no other forum ever did before.
Cheers