I will have to read it more extensively, but an explanation that views it in terms of win/loss is somewhat misguided. One of the less common forms of criticism may be beneficial here. But again, I'm on an iPhone and haven't quite made it through the article. Somebody want to post a question?
Mark 7 contains an odd little story:
And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden. But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell do...
@JonEricson i would contribute ... starting with "what the heck is hermeneutics?" there are just so many misconceptions about it it's starting to make participation difficult o_O
@JonEricson composing an answer right now. not ominous ... just makes answering a question difficult and reduces some questions to nearly unanswerable riddles.
@JonEricson I've though about that, but then it turns into this long, rambling monologue that could/should be parsed out into many different answers. that's why i was thinking "blog series."
so if hermeneutics were to do something like that, i'd probably lean toward applying different methods to a particular passage with different authors contributing the method with which they are most (or least) comfortable
@JonEricson very true. traffic seems to ebb and flow in here
personally, i believe that a bit more groundwork would need to be laid
@JonEricson great point. i guess longer answers - and the passage would probably be internally generated (or perhaps based in a question that has yet to receive a high-quality answer)
@JonEricson yeah. i have a site that i've used for my greek work that i have hosted on my home computer. my isp (comcast) wont let you host on a resi connection so i spin it up and do my analysis and then shut it down
aws could be an option but we'd need some sort of $$ backing
@JonEricson design is overrated. form follows function :)
@swasheck I've been curious if we could show a good proof of concept if we could get SE Inc. to provide hosting. I'm sure it would have minimal cost--especially if we could cover the administration.
But rather than a vague feeling like you did your part, a participant would know that they contributed to the blog. Maybe it would inspire more participation.
@swasheck That was the goal. I got discouraged about participation. :-(
Perhaps. The question of volume on this site (and even the type of content relevant to hermeneutics) is so much more narrow than on many of the other sites.
@JonEricson i'm a member of dba.se and SO is the butt of a lot of jokes
at any rate
I think that the idea of a published (and publicized) blog would be more of a traffic generator.
because of the type of content that we deal with, there is a fairly thin audience. it's not just christianity (there's a site for that), it's the "science" of supporting christian theology
@JonEricson that's fair and i completely understand. but the primary model of SO and SE interaction is "I need to accomplish X and can't. Help me (and oh, by the way, maybe teach me along the way)."
bh.se seem to be more along the lines of "I'd like to know more about X"
Some of you may have seen the recent blog post announcing the closure of 6 sites on Stack Exchange:
when a site struggles to maintain any semblance of steady progress — when it’s struggling to garner an audience, a healthy core of experts, and a steady stream of questions — it becomes increas...
@JonEricson that the site is progressively realizing its potential as a resource for folks with legitimate questions and concerns, be it through blogs, town halls, question/answer, discussion panels, etc. that it engages askers and answerers enough to maintain its momentum such that it matures in its use and that the askers become better answerers through engagement.
i may have just said a whole lot that doesnt make sense. my boss was talking to me :)
the big concern, then, is that the answerers (such as yourself) ... the people whom you call "experts" :) may begin to disengage from the site if there is a distinct downturn in quality questions.
@swasheck I think this is a solvable problem. As a community, we need to and can be aggressive about closing and even deleting bad questions. Please flag anything you find that doesn't fit on our site.
which is why i proposed the idea of a blog. it keeps the "experts" engaged may generate the stuff of new questions. it's a matter of getting experts to commit :)
Mark 7 contains an odd little story:
And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden. But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell do...
Some of you may have seen the recent blog post announcing the closure of 6 sites on Stack Exchange:
when a site struggles to maintain any semblance of steady progress — when it’s struggling to garner an audience, a healthy core of experts, and a steady stream of questions — it becomes increas...
