The senior, who don’t have time to write to the forum standard without risking reputation.
I’m more interested in what we can do to encourage the latter group. My impression is that many senior people are reluctant to post, as they don’t have time to write something sufficiently well-argued and respond to the comments.
Instead many good discussions take place in signal groups, google docs and email threads. In a perfect world, these discussions would be in the forum. The issue right now is that if those conversations would take place on the forum, too many people chime in with long, eloquently written, but wrong arguments that the subject matter experts now have to spend additional time shutting down or look like they are dodging a hard question.
Additionally lowering their bar for public engagement, puts them at risk of attack. There are people reading this forum just to find ammunition for hit pieces. A poorly worded comment from the leader of an organization will be used against them.
I think there’s at least two categories:
The beginner who is scared of ridicule.
The senior, who don’t have time to write to the forum standard without risking reputation.
I’m more interested in what we can do to encourage the latter group. My impression is that many senior people are reluctant to post, as they don’t have time to write something sufficiently well-argued and respond to the comments.
Instead many good discussions take place in signal groups, google docs and email threads. In a perfect world, these discussions would be in the forum. The issue right now is that if those conversations would take place on the forum, too many people chime in with long, eloquently written, but wrong arguments that the subject matter experts now have to spend additional time shutting down or look like they are dodging a hard question.
Additionally lowering their bar for public engagement, puts them at risk of attack. There are people reading this forum just to find ammunition for hit pieces. A poorly worded comment from the leader of an organization will be used against them.