Re: FLASH: El Rebuttal (now: online economics)

[John Dowdell]

One interesting thing about the online world is that the currency is

attention... human time. It does take time to use a search engine, to read

previous posts.


On a mailing list, however, the people who choose to incur such costs are

not those who pay such costs. Rephrased, it's cheaper to push out a "How do

I?" post than to read yesterday's thread on the very topic. Other people

will pay, as they evaluate the message.


This is why flames have a definite function online. There are useless

flames, of course, but if someone imposes a cost on the community, then

they need the feedback of the effects on the community.


Related: The online world welcomes newbies... we're in the fortunate

situation where the increased mindfulness of any works to the benefit of

all. (Rephrased, if someone else makes a great site, it helps you sell your

next site... it's non-zero-sum.) Just following the standard online habits

of lurking-before-leaping, pulling-before-pushing, and the rest of the tips

at the Netiquette repositories, helps in keeping a healthy environment.


jd








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