Re: Advice for sci.electronics.design




John Fields wrote:

>You're not interested in

>what you're interested in is

You have incorrectly assessed my internal mental state.

>Besides, I believe, there's a fundamental flaw in your concept of a
>public forum dedicated to product development in that anyone doing
>product development is going to be constrained (either by an NDA or by
>prudence) in what they can divulge without compromising their
>marketing position. I certainly wouldn't blab about what I might be
>doing (loose lips sink ships, you know) to the world if I expected to
>hit the market with my new widget before anyone else could.

You are correct, and I expect that there will be a lack of details
about products under development. I briefly considered offering an
option that would allow posts to go through a user-defined chain of
mixmaster anonymizers, but I concluded that keeping the product
details secret is more important than keeping the name of the
developer secret. I don't know whether this will be a fatal flaw.

>So what are you going to wind up with? A bunch of idiot sheep who
>think they have something which is going to make them rich and a bunch
>of vultures looking to fleece them.

I won't allow the vultures to post, and those who think they have
something which is going to make them rich (but lack the skills to
develop it) will have to be told the truth. They might not like it
but it's the right thing to do.

>That being the case, what you'll be left with is endless dreary
>discussions about "How can I get my widget to the marketplace?" which
>could be easily handled with a FAQ.

Which, of course, I will handle with a FAQ.

>That leaves just about zero discussion

Perhaps. Time will tell.

>except for the wimps who can't take it on sed and want
>Big Brother to do their filtering for them.

Such people do exist. You obviously are not one of them, of course,
so I would expect you to continue using s.e.d as you always have, knowing
that it is unmoderated and that no proposal to moderate it will be
allowed to be voted upon.

>As bad as you might think sed is, everyone here is free to say just
>exactly what they want, including: "Go *** yourself, Macon." without
>having to wait for approval from anyone before it's disseminated and
>the entire planet can read it.

Indeed they are, and I wouldn't change that even if I could.

I have a question for you; should I whitelist you so that your
posts go straight to misc.business.product-dev without moderation?
The answer to that depends on whether you are inclined to follow
the moderation policy when posting to m.b.p-d. even though you
strongly disagree with it and very much prefer unmoderated groups.
Your comments above about vultures and sheep were quite insightful,
and I would have approved them in a heartbeat in a [POLICY] post
to m.b.p-d.

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