Enenuru Participation Guidelines [Sticky]
Sept 7, 2008 22:59:10 GMT -5
Post by us4-he2-gal2 on Sept 7, 2008 22:59:10 GMT -5
Thread Orientation: This thread has been added at the request of participating members. Here we can go over the few rules and guidelines which with hopefully help with orientation for new members especially those experiencing confusion.
I have been talking with a few new members recently who were unsure of what constitutes participation and posting at enenuru. As I understand this group is somewhat unlike most online social or academic groups I have decided to draw up some general rules and guidelines to help with this uncertainty: participation of course, will inevitably continue to come from the shared enthusiasm and creative generosity of regulars, we create our context as we go - I therefore leave things generally open ended, and would welcome the chance to further develop the below with fellow members.
If anyone dislikes the below framework, or feels it should be altered or expanded on, certainly contact me asap. The below is taken from the enenuru.net htm seen here (thanks for editing it Sheshki, and proofing it Lara!
):
- a) New members must sign the introduction thread *minimal* - this stipulation is in response to the many newcomers over the past year who have joined and but have never posted. As much we love new people, this rule states in effect this: don't join if your not going to post, this is the enenuru discussion board, not the enenuru mailing list!
- b) No personal attacks - this stipulation is almost unnecessary as the board has hardly ever witnessed something that could be interpreted as hostile. That said, the rule that has been generally unspoken is simply that no one should be personally attacked, or insulted, with anything that is unnecessarily crude or derogatory.
- The enenuru board, as a general principle, respects knowledge - but more fundamentally, it values and befriends ambition: Ambition is the unspoken essential behind all acts of self-construction, creative endeavor and production. While respect to one with knowledge is often owed, those with true learning ambition must also be valued: esteemed for what they can do with good inspiration.
- Be community orientated: I don't mean to say here you have to join hands and sing kum-bye-ya, but be community orientated. This means if someone writes your an email, return it; if someone impresses you with a post or replies to a post your worked on, follow up with a thought out response. If someone sparks your interest but didn't write to you in any format - write to them! This is a little dark space, and if anyone hasn't noticed, the natural state of any online ANE discussion group is a what might be termed a "graveyard" - that means a useless craphole where no one does anything. It's only the type of creative dynamic and mutual interest that I refer to here that keeps enenuru from expiring like every online ANE community - so mail/msg someone today!
- The boards alignment with and dedication to Academic findings, and the general ambition of enenuru to engage these materials (primary or secondary) is indicated at the From Fingers to Forks thread. While this alignment is a given with any persons in the field who join, members of the lay public may find assistance "sophisticating" there personal studies here, or assisting others in the same pursuit.
- Believe you can know and do anything
I have been talking with a few new members recently who were unsure of what constitutes participation and posting at enenuru. As I understand this group is somewhat unlike most online social or academic groups I have decided to draw up some general rules and guidelines to help with this uncertainty: participation of course, will inevitably continue to come from the shared enthusiasm and creative generosity of regulars, we create our context as we go - I therefore leave things generally open ended, and would welcome the chance to further develop the below with fellow members.
If anyone dislikes the below framework, or feels it should be altered or expanded on, certainly contact me asap. The below is taken from the enenuru.net htm seen here (thanks for editing it Sheshki, and proofing it Lara!
):Rules:
- a) New members must sign the introduction thread *minimal* - this stipulation is in response to the many newcomers over the past year who have joined and but have never posted. As much we love new people, this rule states in effect this: don't join if your not going to post, this is the enenuru discussion board, not the enenuru mailing list!
- b) No personal attacks - this stipulation is almost unnecessary as the board has hardly ever witnessed something that could be interpreted as hostile. That said, the rule that has been generally unspoken is simply that no one should be personally attacked, or insulted, with anything that is unnecessarily crude or derogatory.
Guidelines:
- The enenuru board, as a general principle, respects knowledge - but more fundamentally, it values and befriends ambition: Ambition is the unspoken essential behind all acts of self-construction, creative endeavor and production. While respect to one with knowledge is often owed, those with true learning ambition must also be valued: esteemed for what they can do with good inspiration.
- Be community orientated: I don't mean to say here you have to join hands and sing kum-bye-ya, but be community orientated. This means if someone writes your an email, return it; if someone impresses you with a post or replies to a post your worked on, follow up with a thought out response. If someone sparks your interest but didn't write to you in any format - write to them! This is a little dark space, and if anyone hasn't noticed, the natural state of any online ANE discussion group is a what might be termed a "graveyard" - that means a useless craphole where no one does anything. It's only the type of creative dynamic and mutual interest that I refer to here that keeps enenuru from expiring like every online ANE community - so mail/msg someone today!
- The boards alignment with and dedication to Academic findings, and the general ambition of enenuru to engage these materials (primary or secondary) is indicated at the From Fingers to Forks thread. While this alignment is a given with any persons in the field who join, members of the lay public may find assistance "sophisticating" there personal studies here, or assisting others in the same pursuit.
Suggestions:
- Believe you can know and do anything
