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[GMCnet] New GMC Forum Follow-on [message #349627] Thu, 24 October 2019 20:30 Go to previous message
Ken Henderson is currently offline  Ken Henderson   United States
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Registered: March 2004
Location: Americus, GA
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I've watched the discussions of a new location for our GMC info with
interest. And some dismay. I wasn't quite sure why I was so concerned
about the plan until I was writing the just-finished dissertation on Lou's
and my 4-day adventure. Then it struck me: The plan to categorize the
discussions under a set of topics is NOT something I like. I visit GMCNet
virtually every day -- have for over 20 years now. I DON'T generally come
here to seek specific information. Rather, I come to see what I can learn
new or have refreshed. Occasionally, I find someone in need of information
which I have and try to share that. I have NO interest in visiting an
index of topics which MIGHT have something of interest to me or contain
someone's plea for help. I certainly don't intend to split the two or
three topics I may discuss in a posting into several discrete ones and post
them to "appropriate" topics.

I guess to me the proposed over-organization of our information smacks of
the "instant gratification" syndrome: Folks want What they want. They
want it Right now. And they don't want to be Bothered with anything else.

Folks of my generation seem to be more content to accumulate bits and
pieces of information as they arrive (as on GMCNet), store them away (in
our heads or some other sort of searchable database), and try to apply some
conglomeration of them to whatever comes up. We DON'T generally expect to
search for a precise answer pre-packaged for us.

There is a BIG difference in those philosophies. I won't condemn either,
and may find, as my memory continues to fail, that I have to transition to
the "serve it to me with a spoon" philosophy. But, for now, I WON'T be
going -- neither to consume nor to contribute.

Ken Old Timer H.
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Ken Henderson
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