Gettho-ising your discussions
I just realised something: I always knew splitting up your discussions like this: WebAIM Accessibility Training Forum was a bad thing. It's better to keep the crowd (and the topics) mixed and, if you want to organise things, retroactively tag discussions with certain topics.
Now I know why: it's the same reason why having a mixed mailing list is usually better than a highly specialized one: you're turning your discussion into a sterile gettho if you separate everything out cleanly. Because that assumes people act like machines, are interested in 1 topic only, and so on.
# Apr 15, 2002