Re: New Relay Announcement

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:42:22PM +0000, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
>  --- Bryan Maloney skrzypszy:
>
> > In that case, I volunteer to start and run a relay, titled "The Other
> > Seventh Conlang Relay".
>
> Why not simply Relay nr. 8?
I second that. No need to hide the fact that #7 is incomplete.

[snip]
> First of all: I agree with Joe that it would be best to wait until the
> Bob's Seventh Relay has been officially concluded. I don't know what has
> happened there, but IMO it would be unfair to those who haven't had
> their turn yet in that relay to start a new one.
They could just join this relay, couldn't they? (Provided it doesn't
conflict with their turn in Relay#7, if it ever comes back to life.)

> Second: experience has taught us that it really takes some time to
> gather all the people interested. Some of us might not be present for
> some reason, and yet they would like to participate.
Experience has also taught that having too many people in a relay makes it
drag on too long, and people start losing the motivation and you end up
with incomplete relays. But I agree that starting in February might be a
bit too early, seeing that January is almost over.

[snip]
> Third: I think it is necessary to be VERY strict with the 48-hours rule.
> The failure of the Seventh Relay was partly due to the fact that the
> text got stuck somewhere and the moderator didn't urge his/her
> predecessor to send it to the next candidate.
Yes. The moderator must rule with an iron fist, so to speak. A little
leniency here and there adds up, and people will start to lose interest.

> So: unless the person who has it has a very good reason to keep the
> text for more than those 48 hours, he loses his turn. (A good reason can
> be, like in my case, the combination of a full-time job with an
> Ebisedian text :), which caused me to need three days).
[snip]

LOL... you see, to the Ebisedi, every relay is tripartite: before
Ebisedian, Ebisedian itself, and after Ebisedian. This fits in well with
their obsession with all things triple. ;-)


T

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