##[Lowfer] Raining on the parade

[Jay Rusgrove]

Bill and all
Here's another 2 cents thrown into the pile...
It seems to me that during this past summer, what with the typical lousy
conditions, there were relatively few ops other than the rowdy dot3 crowd
reporting on much of anything to do with the hobby. (It still is
a hobby, right?) Some amount of summer boredom may be responsible for the
elevated "chaff" to "wheat" levels, though there was some "wheat" to be
had.
The November - February return of better conditions, more ops, more
signals, more modes, more everything should produce a corresponding swing
to a positive "wheat" to "chaff" ratio, right? Might just be the natural
order of things.
And, if it ain't broke...
Finally, to some of those complaining from the sidelines,  I say,
help out and "Show Us Some Wheat!" <G>

&nbsp;
Jay Rusgrove, W1VD

Member, The Rowdy dot3 Club

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Bill Ashlock wrote:
Peter,
>Seems the issue is over the volume of

>non-tech list posts, not necessarily an attack on "humor." As one

>commented, it may have more to do with the signal to noise ratio (
my

>terms ) of the posts.
>I'll add that last week a near local asked how to be removed from the

>list. He too offered the high amount of non-tech posts; I didn't

>challenge his claim.
>I believe what's at stake here is the loss of some LowFERS over reasons

>such as these. That's an issue that shouldn't be casually dismissed
nor

>taken lightly.
Your comments offer a different perspective on this problem than I had
previously considered and are much appreciated. One look at the new messages
right now (10:30 EST) makes this problem particularly evident.  One
possibility is the branching off of some of us to a separate reflector
- the one that was offered to us a few months ago when messages were getting
bogged down, days at a time. This offer is still there. I really don't
feel the group as a whole would benefit from this split since the main
contributors to what we all consider to be the 'good' side of this great
media of communication are also some of the main contributors of the more
negative side. Possibly we could come up with a gentleman's agreement on
the type of messages and the number of messages per day that would be acceptable?
Anything beyond this could be channeled to a secondary site. Anyway, I'll
be thinking more about this over the next few days and hope we can jointly
come to some kind of a solution that

works for all of us.
Thanks,

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