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Article #721290Re: Since I am the only one here--
From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 18:27
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 18:27
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On Wed, 11 May 2016 13:19:47 -0400 (EDT), rri...@taurine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) wrote: >One of the reason I voted against what because the main argument for the >split was that the group had become too high volume. What people didn't >realize, but had been established by previous splits, was that the most >of the new newsgroups would soon grow to volume of their predecessor. >It wouldn't actually solve the volume problem. Generally, with regard to information architecture design, categorized volume at any given level is preferable to uncategorized volume even at lower volume levels. For example if you have a newsgroup, forum, bulletin board etc or whatever that's getting 1000 posts per day, but those posts are covering action games, adventure games, flight sims, rpgs, strategy and miscellany all in one place, if after the split you now observe 3000 posts per day across all groups, the information is still in a better place because even if the distribution is uneven (800 posts in one group, 200 in another), you're still is a position of better info architecture because of the division of focus. It doesn't take into account problems such as declining participation of Usenet in general, the convergence of multiple gaming genres into one and to a large degree fails to properly address the emergence of new gaming genres... So I'm not saying splitting was necessarily the right thing to do, hindsight is always 20/20, but the reasons for doing so were solidly valid at the time.
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