Whither the Watch?

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Sun Mar 22, 2015 8:30 pm

Avatar wrote:Will sort it out over the weekend.

Playing pretty fast & loose with the word "weekend", aren't you?!?

Post by **Sorus** » Sun Mar 22, 2015 8:33 pm

Heck, it's probably already Monday where he is.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Sun Mar 22, 2015 10:55 pm

Yup. Never really trusted him. Too much hair dye.

Post by **aliantha** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 1:38 am

peter (USSM) wrote:[who was the guy who lived in Russia - he was cool]

Swear to gods, between you and u. baiting me about rusmeister...

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 2:18 am

peter (USSM) wrote:Is there reason to fear for the Watches future. It always seems pretty active in the places I post or visit. Granted we've lost a few regulars over the years [who was the guy who lived in Russia - he was cool] but hey, it happens. Shall we not send out an e-mail to all existing members inviting them to a party on a given day - like a reunion do or whatever! That would be fun.

The party idea sounds fun to me, too...

I'm going to admit... I've fantasized about some sort of challenge where a group of people make riddles and puzzles that have their solutions (mainly) in stuff from the books and from things Watchers have said in the past... and they [these hypothetical people making the puzzles?] somehow make stuff that's so engaging and/or has enough variety that people "can't look away" and really get in to solving it.

Post by **Avatar** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 4:40 am

Fist and Faith wrote:
Avatar wrote:Will sort it out over the weekend.
Playing pretty fast & loose with the word "weekend", aren't you?!?

Scions Of Eiran

Done.

And I archived Heart of God too.

Wasn't online all weekend.

--A

Post by **Savor Dam** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 4:15 am

Avatar wrote:Wasn't online all weekend.

Which is Av's usual weekend behavior. A life, he has one.

peter (USSM) wrote:Is there reason to fear for the Watches future....Shall we not send out an e-mail to all existing members inviting them to a party on a given day - like a reunion do or whatever! That would be fun.

Heh and oh my. You do know this has happened four times; the four Elohimfests that have been held in Albuquerque. Indeed, the “Whither the Watch?” thread and the entire Watch revitalization movement was born out of conversations that took place in danlo’s back yard last June.

When/if it happens again, make a point to go...or take part in one of the many smaller gatherings that take place each year. Any gathering of three or more Watchers is a 'fest!

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 4:37 am

Savor Dam wrote: Which is Av's usual weekend behavior. A life, he has one.

Uh, not really.

But I spend all week online so a break is nice. Also, I was playing games.

--A

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 2:47 am

Savor Dam wrote:
peter (USSM) wrote:Is there reason to fear for the Watches future....Shall we not send out an e-mail to all existing members inviting them to a party on a given day - like a reunion do or whatever! That would be fun.
Heh and oh my. You do know this has happened four times; the four Elohimfests that have been held in Albuquerque. Indeed, the “Whither the Watch?” thread and the entire Watch revitalization movement was born out of conversations that took place in danlo’s back yard last June.

When/if it happens again, make a point to go...or take part in one of the many smaller gatherings that take place each year. Any gathering of three or more Watchers is a 'fest!

Oh, see I was assuming he just meant on the Watch... just like, "Hey, we're inviting a bunch of oldbies back all at once, so you should see more people you know online that day!"

Post by **Avatar** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 4:23 am

Pretty sure he did mean to the Watch.

--A

Post by **peter** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:26 am

You nailed it Linna

. In respect of actual physical gatherings - you hold an e-fest in London and I'm there - thats a promise!

Post by **Avatar** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 4:10 am

Guess not.

--A

Post by **ussusimiel** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 11:43 pm

Anyone else notice a bit of a pick up in activity on the Watch in the last couple of weeks: new game in Gravin Threndor, a couple of old faces around, more people logging etc?

Just sayin' it's nice to see!

u.

Post by **Avatar** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 4:21 am

They feel bad because of our complaining.

--A

Post by **MsMary** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 5:04 am

Ha!

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Thu Apr 02, 2015 4:11 pm

ussusimiel wrote:Agreed, and a big cause of this drop off (as we have also noticed here) has been the rise of Facebook.

I keep wanting to contrast Facebook social interaction, with its problems and weirdnesses, and the interactions in a place like this.
(I am often thinking about how on FB the extent to which the people in a given conversation know each other varies WILDLY. And if you interact with a friend-of-friend from a different social circle, the odds of repeated interaction seem... low.)

Because it seems that would be related to our motivations to want to keep this place around.

Post by **aliantha** » Thu Apr 02, 2015 4:37 pm

To me, Facebook seems like a run-and-gun type of interaction. You post some silliness and you get almost instant feedback. Posts at the Watch allow you more time to reflect (and second-guess yourself

). So you get longer, more thoughtful posts here a lot of times than you do on FB.

And thanks to FB's algorithms, you aren't going to see everything you're interested in seeing, and your friends are almost definitely posting stuff that FB isn't showing you. Here, if you've been gone for a while and have missed stuff, you can scroll back and read it all.

OTOH, FB's algorithms give you an out: "I didn't know you had done X." "Well, I posted about it on FB -- didn't you see it?" "No! Stupid FB algorithms..."

Post by **MsMary** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 7:40 pm

Post by **peter** » Mon Apr 06, 2015 12:02 pm

I'm not a Facebook fan; it seems to generate almost as much animosity as it does positive relations, and it's capacity to damage an individual beyond any reasonable relationship to 'their just desserts' is truly frightening. The same is true of Twitter.

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