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[Jeffrey Reynolds]

Yes i was curious why the forums were locked event to peek at the  
content. As Richard stated its a big turn off for most users, you  
would like to know what you are signing up for before signing up. If  
this is to hide that some of the forums dont have many posts its not  
a good move for rev either since it would piss me off to go to the  
trouble of signing up and then find out what i wanted wasn't there  
yet or what i wanted.

I too much prefer this list. put it in digest form and its really  
fast and easy to scan and i even run across a few things when  
scrolling through the digest email that i may not have clicked on by  
the title. I have used several web forums, and as others have noted,  
always find i quickly stop using them since having to go to the site  
and scan the lists in various ways (depending on the forum ui) just  
was a bit too much. Im probably a member of 20 email lists and they  
all are extremely fast and easy to keep on top of while taking  
relatively little time to do this each day.

Personally I also dislike the specific benefits made by Lynn of a  
forum of posts being editable or controllable. these lists are very  
self limiting and the few storms that come up go away quickly. a good  
free and open discourse is the heart and sole of what makes this such  
a wonderful list for all and probably one of the major supports of  
the product for the company (and i would hesitate to say w/o it, it  
may not have made it this far). a big brother approach to this kind  
of discourse (ie channeling, censoring, or editing) ruins it with  
even the threat of it.

Jeffrey Reynolds



On Sep 5, 2006, at 1:00 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com  
wrote:

>> The current forum is apparently still being set up.  For example,
>> unlike most product forums out there, it's not possible to even read
>> the posts at the Rev forum until after you've submitted your
>> personal data and wait to have it human-verified.  The readers there
>> have overwhelmingly favored adhering to traditional convention by at
>> least allowing read access for guests, so it seems reasonable
>> that'll be set up as the system gets fleshed out.  Adding an email
>> interface would seem almost as simple to set up as the system moves
>> toward completion.
>
> I can verify this.  I signed up the other day, and am still awaiting
> my "human verification" part.  I was curious about the forum
> dedicated to adventure gaming, as that is my current project.  I have
> no idea if the forum even has activity.  But it seemed worth looking
> into.