michaelb51
Guest
The IQ of a committee is the lowest IQ of a member of the committee, divided by the numbers of members on the committee.
That gets halved for actual democracies.
This question is being squirted about because for each person it becomes a discussion of personal indentity. The last diving club I joined spent hours one night talking about how to calculate how many hamburgers to pack for a club dive trip, and I abruptly unjoined it without deliberation or remorse.
That was 1966.
I use this board to survey activity around my local area. That area moves around the country, and in luckier years, the world. I'm not in the least jingoistic about the neighborhood I do or don't inhabit.
Florida Conch Divers is already at level 4 in the forum hierarchy. Part of Regional Travel and Dive Clubs. That hierarchy is mostly a geographical tree. Any new division should carry that theme. But no committee can hope to enumerate that list using any tool other than exasperation, IMO. So I still believe that further division of Florida, for trip dicussions or calendar, is not needed.
BUT: The subforum we live under here is Regional Travel and Dive Clubs.
So, one group of subforums, clubs, subregional or otherwise, makes sense to me because it creates a single node for me to ignore, and others to rub raw. And it creates good homes for local knowledge stickies, too. For that reason, I'd prefer they were created for destinations, rather than regions. Maybe that would also halt the gerrymandering. I can't see that "where we are from" matters all that much.
Florida Conch Divers
--Trips and Local Marketplace... Florida Conch Divers
--Calendar
--Subforums SitegroupA, SitegroupB, SitegroupC...
That way the problem domain shrinks to something less arbitrary and opinionable, I think.
Nonetheless, here's my new vote:
Florida Conch Divers
--Trips and Local Marketplace
--Calendar
--Sites & Information
----Keys
----SE Coast
----SW Coast
----Panhandle Coast
----Springs
----Others, & Dry Land
That gets halved for actual democracies.
This question is being squirted about because for each person it becomes a discussion of personal indentity. The last diving club I joined spent hours one night talking about how to calculate how many hamburgers to pack for a club dive trip, and I abruptly unjoined it without deliberation or remorse.
That was 1966.
I use this board to survey activity around my local area. That area moves around the country, and in luckier years, the world. I'm not in the least jingoistic about the neighborhood I do or don't inhabit.
Florida Conch Divers is already at level 4 in the forum hierarchy. Part of Regional Travel and Dive Clubs. That hierarchy is mostly a geographical tree. Any new division should carry that theme. But no committee can hope to enumerate that list using any tool other than exasperation, IMO. So I still believe that further division of Florida, for trip dicussions or calendar, is not needed.
BUT: The subforum we live under here is Regional Travel and Dive Clubs.
So, one group of subforums, clubs, subregional or otherwise, makes sense to me because it creates a single node for me to ignore, and others to rub raw. And it creates good homes for local knowledge stickies, too. For that reason, I'd prefer they were created for destinations, rather than regions. Maybe that would also halt the gerrymandering. I can't see that "where we are from" matters all that much.
Florida Conch Divers
--Trips and Local Marketplace... Florida Conch Divers
--Calendar
--Subforums SitegroupA, SitegroupB, SitegroupC...
That way the problem domain shrinks to something less arbitrary and opinionable, I think.
Nonetheless, here's my new vote:
Florida Conch Divers
--Trips and Local Marketplace
--Calendar
--Sites & Information
----Keys
----SE Coast
----SW Coast
----Panhandle Coast
----Springs
----Others, & Dry Land
