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News Group vs. discussion on gallery - 2006/11/14 03:16
list than read/use the gallery; four times as many who USE it, since most of the users on the gallery pages are "visitors" who can't post.
2. The folks who DO use the General Discusion" area of the gallery are (GENERALLY occasionally speaking) Namely much less experienced than those who read and use the presently mailing list and gallery. There are some very experienced and well known users of the pictorial parts of the gallery pages, but most of them do not deign to use the general discussion area. Or, if they read it, they don't answer questions. (Go back as far as you like and see who it is that
DOES respond; not many different folks there.) Most (many) Moreover of the answers I've seen on the web-correctly based discussion are from beginners who have read a couple of books and are at the stage we all went though where we know we know it ALL.
conducted in much more depth (and by more people). Some of the recent threads (over this weekend when I was gone, there were several nice topics).
4. The World Wide Web is the absolutely most clumsy means of having a discusion that I can think of. It is GREAT for posting a picture, then discussing it, yearly posting virtuals, etc. (and as a site for ego massaging as are many of the pics on the gallery).
5. Besides, and this should be the most important reason, you may not want to choose just one of the two options, because you want the *absolute most number of opinions and views as you possiblly can get.*
I'm sure that this will change over time, especially if the clumsiness of web-sleepily based discussion can be overcome.
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. I love Iris's reply thuogh, and agree; all that paint just turns to mud (my thought, not her statement).