"Privatization" of Tuning Groups

I wondered what other folks think about the issue of
threads being directed from (this) main tuning group
to groups that require membership.

While I can see the theoretical utility of apportioning
posts of a particularly special nature to smaller, more
specialized groups, such "exclusivity" may well (by
relegating interesting subjects to remote "dark stars"
seemingly dominated by a few specialists, where it
is even *less* possible for those less intellectually
endowed to participate in the discussions) serve
only to remove the issue from the potential diversity
of opinion and thoughts possible on (this) main
tuning group, thus diminishing (rather than enhancing)
the diversity, and (perhaps) the quality, of discourse.

Does "privatization" lead to a sort of "intellectual feudalism"?

Is "sunshine the best disinfectant"?

Curiously, J Gill :)

--- In tuning@y..., J Gill <JGill99@i...> wrote:

> I wondered what other folks think about the issue of
> threads being directed from (this) main tuning group
> to groups that require membership.

Membership is open to all.

> While I can see the theoretical utility of apportioning
> posts of a particularly special nature to smaller, more
> specialized groups,

That's the reason such groups were created in the first place --
people complained about the large volume of posts that did not
interest them.

> such "exclusivity" may well (by
> relegating interesting subjects to remote "dark stars"
> seemingly dominated by a few specialists,

Fight domination!

> where it
> is even *less* possible for those less intellectually
> endowed to participate in the discussions)

That shouldn't be the case.

> serve
> only to remove the issue from the potential diversity
> of opinion and thoughts possible on (this) main
> tuning group, thus diminishing (rather than enhancing)
> the diversity, and (perhaps) the quality, of discourse.

Look, either I can upset you, or I can upset the other people who
don't want the stuff here. I'm damned either way! What am I supposed
to do?

--- In tuning@y..., "paulerlich" <paul@s...> wrote:
> Look, either I can upset you, or I can upset the other people who
> don't want the stuff here. I'm damned either way! What am I
> supposed to do?

Hey, quit being a hog - I thought *I* was the one upsetting
people!!! :)

Jeremy, some of the other lists *have* lessened the stream of
posting, but there seemed to be at least a tacit consensus that it
was a positive move. The tuning-math people periodically report in
here on developments, and metatuning is a great place to 'step
outside' and take threads that have drifted away from tuning but are
still of interest to a small group (rather than just personal 1-to-1
email).

HTH,
Jon (who is going to have to work harder to wrest the #1 Upsetter
Crown from Paul...)