Sal, the mission of TeaDay was to create a friendly place where EVERYONE who drank tea would feel welcome and at ease to simply share what is in their cup that day...and discuss a topic.....yes, a bit more casual than the rest of the forum. But there have been some excellent discussions along the way.
Yes the atmosphere is a little more casual...like a virtual TeaRoom. But as Space has already pointed out, ITD is not all about intense TEA discussion.
A forum such as TeaChat can have a casual side and a serious side. I see no reason why they cannot coexist in peaceful harmony. The "teamoms" can coexist with the the gong fuers, can't the gong fuers coexist with the teamoms.
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Sure, but while the TeaMoms can complain about the TeaThugs, the TeaThugs can express themselves, too.Chip wrote:A forum such as TeaChat can have a casual side and a serious side. I see no reason why they cannot coexist in peaceful harmony. The "teamoms" can coexist with the the gong fuers, can't the gong fuers coexist with the teamoms.
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You can only have so much daily serious tea talk. I know that my tea knowledge has somewhat reached a personal zenith (not that I know everything, far from it, just that I know everything that is practical to my personal tea experience at the moment). So it's nice to sit back and have some fellowship with each other, make friends over tea.
As I have mentioned before, tea is something that most of us have to enjoy by ourselves. I for one like the direction that TeaDay has taken this weekend, steering the conversation to other non-tea things.
I think there's a balance right now. There are silly and frivilous threads, a lot of newbie questions, but there are also usually a few good, serious threads going at any given point.
Long Live TeaDay.
As I have mentioned before, tea is something that most of us have to enjoy by ourselves. I for one like the direction that TeaDay has taken this weekend, steering the conversation to other non-tea things.
I think there's a balance right now. There are silly and frivilous threads, a lot of newbie questions, but there are also usually a few good, serious threads going at any given point.
Long Live TeaDay.
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There wasn't as much babbling about books and movies and cats and work and children and DHs, but as far as teachatting goes, it was at least as alive at the end of last year as it is now, even more so if you count the IM, which for me (and maybe for others) is virtually dead these days since I never remember to visit now that it's invisible. That's where I got most of my tea education and (for me at least) was the heart of TeaChat. In fact, I feel in the IM I made real friends rather than shooting the breeze with strangers like in TeaDay. The forum format discourages spontaneous interaction and getting to know people; it's more like posting short notes on a bulletin board than like a phone conversation.Victoria wrote:Well when I came here this whole forum was dead in my opinion. No one was talking...
A large number of posts consumes an enormous amount of time skimming, but does not necessarily make a more valuable forum. In fact, in a lot of ways it reduces the value just like having 10,000 photos on a hard drive is not necessarily an improvement over having 50 in a traditional photo album.
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I think this is what I said in my last paragraph of that post.Chip wrote:.. A forum such as TeaChat can have a casual side and a serious side...
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I was thinking of coming up with some clever tea metaphor for ITD vs. TeaChat in general vs. TeaDay (it began with "ITD = gyokuro"), but then realized that some metaphors just shouldn't be sustained.
I don't take part in TeaDay every day, just as I don't accompany my coworkers on coffee break every day I spend at the office. But it certainly is nice to know that if I feel like chatting, there's a place where we can have easy conversation, share our latest snapshots, and shoot the breeze about whatever we feel like.
I don't take part in TeaDay every day, just as I don't accompany my coworkers on coffee break every day I spend at the office. But it certainly is nice to know that if I feel like chatting, there's a place where we can have easy conversation, share our latest snapshots, and shoot the breeze about whatever we feel like.
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I don't have a problem with TeaDay either, except for how it pushes a lot of non-TeaDay posts out of the RSS queue (I don't know why I only get the X most recent posts, I guess it's the same thing that messes up the recent posts page), meaning I lose track of the rest of the forum. I used to read every single post made on TeaChat, but I don't want to read 90% of the TeaDay posts and I'm not even aware of many new posts in other areas because of the strange feed behavior, so I don't even try anymore.
Still, that is at least partly a technical problem, so I can't blame it all on TeaDay. I don't particularly enjoy the TeaDay chatter (I think it has increased the oft mentioned noise/ signal ratio), but live and let live, I guess.
Still, that is at least partly a technical problem, so I can't blame it all on TeaDay. I don't particularly enjoy the TeaDay chatter (I think it has increased the oft mentioned noise/ signal ratio), but live and let live, I guess.
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I had a similar problem with the rss feed. I solved it by putting the teachat logo on my bookmark toolbar and deleting the rss feed. Aside from no longer having a 'mark all topics read' button for the individual fora the move has been entirely successful.
Abandon rss, embrace the site. Unless I've missed something very obvious.
Abandon rss, embrace the site. Unless I've missed something very obvious.
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Haha@ 'TeaThugs' ...who'd think there'd be a day when we would have TeaThugs?El Padre wrote:Sure, but while the TeaMoms can complain about the TeaThugs, the TeaThugs can express themselves, too.Chip wrote:A forum such as TeaChat can have a casual side and a serious side. I see no reason why they cannot coexist in peaceful harmony. The "teamoms" can coexist with the the gong fuers, can't the gong fuers coexist with the teamoms.
Now that should be a Tea-Shirt!
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First rule of super double secret forum club...CynTEAa wrote:Oh, my stars! The humanity!
Actually, I was worried there was a Super DOUBLE Secret Forum somewhere.
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