The Dinner Table--RA vs. (and? or? with?) CR (Read 1880 times)

This isn't really a thread about running, but I thought I'd put it in the "new to running" thread because it's about newness. The last couple of days have brought an influx (I've called it a "flood" to myself, quietly) of new folks to this community. Those of us who have been here for a while are worried that this flood will significantly change the culture that we really cherish. Change is a pretty regular feature of life, and it's not always bad. My sense is that this change can bring new ideas, new friendly folks, and enhance the quality of the boards. One way, perhaps, to make sure that it does is to reflect openly about the sorts of things we appreciate about RA (and, perhaps, the things that you appreciate about the Coolrunning community) to try to find shared values and practices that we can actively work to promote. So, I thought it might help to have a thread that is explicitly about these changes. A place for folks to state their worries, to draw attention to new possibilities, or just to get to know each other. A place to sit down together in the spirit of keeping this place awesome and, perhaps, making it even better.

Jeff, nice work. Can you pass me the mashed taters?

Jeff, nice work. Can you pass me the mashed taters?

Sure thing, lightening legs. I want me some cornbread.

I agree with z-z. That's why I haven't asked where the Masters (or "Boomers" -- ) forum is, and the daily thread and the intrepid thread, and weekly, and yadda yadda yadda. It's hi-neighbor time! Pass the cranberry sauce (hey, someone did an awesome job getting it out of the can -- the can imprint is still there!!!).

Nice thought Jeff...I was thinking I would back off and watch how the site progressed through these changes and then I thought...how great to read new folks enthusiasm for their own change...I should keep posting ad libidum. I noticed at first how few of the newbies opened their logs to the public and then realized they are probably learning the site and hesitant to break into this rather tight crowd. I know from experience that size does matter and bigger groups bring 1) diversity, a good thing 2) lots of diverse egos; can be a good thing 3) animosity; not a great thing 4) animosity leads to its own set of problems I moved to Alaska because I was so very tired of all of the problems that stem from large populations of folks living too close and I sure hope RA doesn't fall to such problems. This is a GREAT site that fosters positive running advice/venting/etc. I also hope to wathc the evolution of this site positively

I agree. I think we should lose the CR tags on everything. There's already a group / forum for that- CR Refugees (http://runningahead.com/groups/CRR), and I think that's plenty. We should try and become part of the RA community, and not to turn this place into cool running 2 or try to remain separate from the RA members. It's not like cool running was perfect, the server was slow, the forum and log software were old and out of date. I look at this as a new beginning for us and hope that this will turn out better than cool running ever was.

I agree. I think we should lose the CR tags on everything. There's already a group / forum for that- CR Refugees (http://runningahead.com/groups/CRR), and I think that's plenty. We should try and become part of the RA community, and not to turn this place into cool running 2 or try to remain separate from the RA members. It's not like cool running was perfect, the server was slow, the forum and log software were old and out of date. I look at this as a new beginning for us and hope that this will turn out better than cool running ever was.

I like you.

Aw, shucks. Now pass the cornbread dressing!