Grady is gone again, perhaps to return, perhaps not. In the meantime we miss the stories and comments about the old time players and the knowledge he occasionally drops. I would prefer him here if I have to wade through a dozen negative posts from him for every good one.
However there is another issue besides the pro's and the legends that we as a group run off. There are a lot of lurkers or registered members out there that never post. I know of at least a half-dozen people with a lot to offer that won't post here because they know they would get sucked into the bickering and fighting. Some don't consider themselves computer literate, as polished with words, or as able of typists so they know that right or wrong they will get chewed up in disagreements with swarms of attacking keyboard commandoes.
I certainly haven't been blameless in the past but I do try to think before I post now, particularly when the issue isn't pool related or is pool related but relatively unimportant to me. Is it really worth offending a valuable poster to point out that they are wrong or that I think they are wrong? Is it worth keeping nobody knows how many could be valuable posters off of these forums?
If anyone cares to check the members list, we have seventy-four pages of registered users who have never posted and over half of our members have posted less than a half-dozen times. How many of these could be valuable contributors? How many lurkers have a great deal to offer?
I know for sure that included in these lurkers and registered posters that don't contribute there are names that almost everyone on this forum would recognize. We need to create a climate that encourages them to post. The history of pool is mostly an oral history. Without the stories being written many great tales will be lost and forgotten. This is to say nothing of the pool knowledge that has to be rediscovered over and over instead of passed on. Some of this knowledge is certainly lost.
Hu
However there is another issue besides the pro's and the legends that we as a group run off. There are a lot of lurkers or registered members out there that never post. I know of at least a half-dozen people with a lot to offer that won't post here because they know they would get sucked into the bickering and fighting. Some don't consider themselves computer literate, as polished with words, or as able of typists so they know that right or wrong they will get chewed up in disagreements with swarms of attacking keyboard commandoes.
I certainly haven't been blameless in the past but I do try to think before I post now, particularly when the issue isn't pool related or is pool related but relatively unimportant to me. Is it really worth offending a valuable poster to point out that they are wrong or that I think they are wrong? Is it worth keeping nobody knows how many could be valuable posters off of these forums?
If anyone cares to check the members list, we have seventy-four pages of registered users who have never posted and over half of our members have posted less than a half-dozen times. How many of these could be valuable contributors? How many lurkers have a great deal to offer?
I know for sure that included in these lurkers and registered posters that don't contribute there are names that almost everyone on this forum would recognize. We need to create a climate that encourages them to post. The history of pool is mostly an oral history. Without the stories being written many great tales will be lost and forgotten. This is to say nothing of the pool knowledge that has to be rediscovered over and over instead of passed on. Some of this knowledge is certainly lost.
Hu
