Report-back: any comments?

[french frank]

The thing is, if you don't hear a programme it's not always easy to find something to say about it. That's of course why the more "general" discussions are easier to drop into and comment on.

OTOH, a bit of flagging up in advance of programmes that look a bit interesting perhaps encourages people who have found them interesting (or not) to comment.

[Anna]

I'm a bit backward at coming forward re performances on R3, thinking to myself 'what do I know, others know better' and possibly being asked to justify my enthusiasm in technical terms rather than just me saying 'I thought it was brilliant' which is why I tend to just stick to the general discussion threads. I just don't feel I am knowledgeable enough and what I say wouldn't carry much weight (unlike people like IGI or wilf - if he were here)

[Daring Tripod]

Take the dive Anna like I am trying to do!
DT.

[John Wright]

Anna, DT,

Just to say I am a bit overwhelmed by FoR3 forum with regard to the number of threads/postings, often there are more than 50 members on line at one time. I see thread titles, many that would interest me but I just haven't got the time to check many of them out.

I've fallen so far behind I can't catch up. I expect the scale of things was similar at BBCR3MB but I rarely visited there because of the arguments/techiness/nuisance there. R3ok on the other hand is now too quiet and there's rarely a thread I will post on except the chatty ones.

[french frank]

I've fallen so far behind I can't catch up.

Me too, John . I tend to use the What's New? view and pop in when I see something interesting. But my main area of interest is Arts & Ideas so I read most of the threads there.

We are, perhaps, generating more threads too in order to draw attention to programmes, either forthcoming or still available on Listen Again. I imagine people simply disregard them if the subject doesn't interest them. It is rather like the BBC boards in that like-minded people tend to cluster together: CD Review, Building a Library, Platform 3 and, of course Jazz and World.