Posted by stjames on November 17, 2000, at 21:18:47
In reply to Re: Miscellaneous Reactions to the Board-Long » stjames, posted by julesvox on November 17, 2000, at 15:57:55
> ouch. appreciate your observations, stjames ... but am thinking if i am to search a FAQ for my problems, that doesn't really make it an interactive board, does it?
James here....
Huh ? If you search the archives, which are derived from the interactive sessions, how does this make the board interactive. Keep in mind that many people that post useful info leave the
board, so the archives are the only way to find
this info.The other way to look at this is that people are lazy. With a connection to the internet, which has
huge resources, some sill will not take any active
role in finding their info and expect others to search the internet for them. If one can make it to this board then an internet search engine is not beyond their abilities. The information presented here, while often of excellent quality, is biased. An internet search can return primary source materials, the holy gail of research.I've been on the internet a long time. Back in the SLIP days, using gopher, shell accounts, archie, ect. Now it is so easy to look stuff up.
I also found it very healing to activly find stuff on my own. Because the internet did not have this info back then I used the Library, lucky to live near a major one. I worked digallanty to understand things and would like to
see others do this, too. Ethically, because I am not a doctor, I would prefer people to not say " I understand X because James told me about it" but "James pointed me to X and I found Y and Z, so now I understand it"Am a bitching too much ? Well, I do get e-mails for people on this board and other places that say "don't post URL's, I don't like to surf" or "quit posting those studies, I don't read them" Sigh ! How egocentric, like they are to only ones out there ! This attitude seems to indicate some "expect" others to do all the reading and digest it for them. I am so happy when someone says "I went to that link and there are a few things I do not understand" or even " I went there and understood nothing, could you help ?" The internet is not a souped up TV, where you turn it on and go passive.
james
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