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froodish
Social climber
Portland, Oregon
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Jan 23, 2013 - 07:58pm PT
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2) It should not be hard to ensure that posting privileges be granted to only climbers (past or present). There is some "monitoring" overhead in screening applicants to grant posting privileges to only those that actually DO have climbing history (present awesomeness need not be necessary, as long as present aging folk were once active climbers). However, that level of "monitoring" would be a small fraction of the effort required to actively "tweak" thread activity itself.
The problem with that is it doesn't scale. If you're going to implement a rep system, you need to rely upon the members to provide the rep. Users gain rep (and potentially privies) when they provide content that the community finds valuable and participate in ways that benefit the forum.
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froodish
Social climber
Portland, Oregon
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Jan 23, 2013 - 08:07pm PT
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A paycheck would work far better.
Actually, research and results say otherwise. For instance, look at participation in open source software projects. Look at the quality and effort users put into Stack Overflow answers. Or closer to home, look at the efforts of guidebook authors and first ascensionists. Community recognition is a powerful motivator.
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scooter
climber
fist clamp
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Jan 23, 2013 - 08:40pm PT
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As I look at the threads there are more 'climbing' threads than ever. Awesome. The site is looking great. Maybe try deleting ALL the non-climbing threads for a month.
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kwit
climber
california
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Jan 23, 2013 - 09:06pm PT
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Pure procrastination got me here, but since I'm here, I'll add my totally unrecognizable and unimportant minor character two cents: I think it is important that this forum has all sorts of political weirdness and off-topic dilation and arguments and undercooked rants.
I live in San Francisco, work in a deeply liberal profession, and associate probably 80% with people who think and vote like I do, largely because that's simply how demographics play out. I like to come on here and look beyond the walls of my little fishbowl. I don't love to read about how some people are positively in love with guns, but it helps me to know that those people are also climbers with whom I have things in common so maybe that big Gun Divide is surmountable. Or people in favor of drastically reduced governmental services: not what I think, but again, how lovely to be able to say "wow, I totally disagree...let's go climbing" than just to imagine we have no way to speak to each other at all.
Or consider the "dog's life" thread. TOTALLY OFF TOPIC but probably the most loving and harmonious thread on here, and makes me feel good to read it.
As for boobies: pfffft. Who cares. Do I support the objectification of women? By no means. I am a woman and I'd rather not be reduced to my secondary sex characteristics. But I don't need a thread on Supertopo to feel objectified. I need look no further than the grocery store checkout or the New York Times for that. This is not a captive audience, and an audience with choice should reject censorship just as it may also choose to reject hypersexualizing women. Chris M. can make the choice to police this site--that is absolutely his right and prerogative, but I would hate to see the hotchpotch of this site get all lined up and neatened and made safe.
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Prezwoodz
climber
Anchorage
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Jan 23, 2013 - 10:06pm PT
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I found that I got pretty bored trying to find climbing posts in all the politcal/ religious/ ranting / ect...
It'll be nice not to have to hunt for a climbing thread!
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kwit
climber
california
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Jan 23, 2013 - 10:08pm PT
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Yeah Skully. Nobody on here seems to want an over-bolted wall with pads at the bottom and an elevator at the top, so maybe we don't want to over-bolt the site, either. You come here and maybe you're gonna take the big ride. Or not.
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WBraun
climber
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Jan 23, 2013 - 10:43pm PT
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The future of the forum
There's no future as it's already here full of stupid boobs ......
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Jan 23, 2013 - 10:48pm PT
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she's got everything she needs
she's an artist
she don't look back
always wondered if she looked forward
Good night Mrs. Calabash and Herr Braun, whererever you are.
Credit: The Flames
[Click to View YouTube Video]
EDIT: and Jim Donini and Lolli
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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Jan 23, 2013 - 10:56pm PT
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Kwit, outstanding post. I agree completely.
Keep the TacoStand weird.
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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Jan 23, 2013 - 10:56pm PT
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screening applicants to grant posting privileges to only those that actually DO have climbing history
If this site comes to that, many good people and friends of the community here would not "qualify." I for one, would "resign" despite my background, which isn't much. WTF? That is not the ST I know!
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Jan 23, 2013 - 11:15pm PT
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You all know there's more to climbing than the simple act of climbing. Chalk up, rack up, whatever......Been around long enough to hear and see what goes on in total from sun up to the time everyone passes out.
This climbing forum represents the above. Yeah, there is more to climbing than the actual act. There's the s#@$t talk, the friendships made, sharing, caring, hating, mad bolters, bolt cutters, routes won and routes stolen ...you fill in the rest, you get the drift.
Really, this forum mirrors real life. So get over it and live.
Love and Peace to all of you who helped me create a new life when I lost my last one.
Chill and Ciao, lynnie
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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Jan 24, 2013 - 01:35am PT
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QITNL, from you, that a true compliment. Much appreciated, I feel the same to you.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
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William Wordsworth...
“What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
...
Susan
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Cool Susan
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