[Vision2020] time to move on??

[Melynda Huskey]

Debbie writes:

"Is it just me or could we move along to some other horse to flog to death?"

According to a friend who thinks a whole lot about Internet discourse, we're up against the Wilcox-McCandlish law of online discourse evolution, which says, among other things:

The chance of success of any attempt to change the topic or direction of a thread of discussion in a networked forum is directly proportional to the quality of the current content. 

There's a corollary, too:

When a thread reaches the flame war stage, all changes in thread topic or direction will be changes for the worse. 

Melynda Huskey

P.S.  I'd be interested to know more about the content in your community diversity workshop.