Thanks from my side as well for re-bringing the post. Great views !!! Succintly put down as well.
Offcourse we should be happy about the platform we have at hand.
But at the same time , we should not be satisfied with only having the platform and doing what has been achieved thus far. Craving for good is not that bad.
A very valid point from the post is that there have been attrition ( and that may be attributed to a variety of factors including clash of egos at some point of time , a feeling of sameness of the forum etc ).
I am no expert to comment on psychology but we learn that the human needs fall into a hierarchy( Maslow etc .. ) and they grow over time and we move from one domain to another as we fulfill one level.
My idea for making things to move on is based on this theory only. If we keep on doing newer things , we will be creative enough to hold people.
the time we spend here or somewhere else ( after being bored from this forum ) can be creatively utilized for better works.
Not only i am hypothesising that the responsible people can be better utilized but also i am saying that if we create a system , a school of thaught , a working organisation or community amongst ourselves , we will be attracting new people and will be able to hold more.
With collective efforts we can achieve more and that feeliing of achievemnt can be taken into our personal lives. And it is not only about doing a particular social work at a particular place but many other things. Just for an example : If we manage to set up a fund among ourselves , we can help someone from among us only at some point in life.
Somewhere comes across a feeling that i ( i think "we" is a better word here , because my thoughts are equally recognised by some others and so in that sense i am writing on behalf of those few as well
)am kind of forcing people into doing something. Very personally let me clarify that YES , I am trying to. And the reason is very simple. Not only i am looking at the growth of the activities "WE" ( and we refers to the intended audience and the intended speakers ) will be doing but also it will contribute to the development of the inner self of each involved.
Imagine a situation where a leadership act or an successfully managed work at this forum gives someone the confidence of taking initiatives in his/her profession and turns his/her professional life more active and better managed.
As very meticulously observed in the post , the forum also serves as an connector between two persons , two families and much more. Once we se t up tasks and work like a team , it is bound to increase the personal rapport between the members and ultimately will be a major factor in bringing down the egoes and will lead to less incidents of clashes in turn reducing the workload of the Moderators.
Dont we see small sub-groups in which the memmbers do make personal comments and that too pretty nasty ones but only because of the bond they share among themselves , they are imune to each other's words and infact enjoy it to the core. So working on a mutual and common goal , working in tandem , working as a unit will increase the personal interactions and will cultivate a feeling of "TEAM".
I might be wrong but i firmly believe that once we start ( and we must not set high goals for the start) and carry on for some time , sustaining the efforts of ours , we would be doing pretty good.
Taking the subject line of the thread , I openly invite all seniors and moderators and others to seriously think on these lines , it is something like scaling for me in technical terms , with our little efforts and scaling of the same , i.e. leveraging our efforts , we can achieve a lot.
Please consider these things seriously. Each one has to contribute. Let us all get involved.
And may i request Navin to substantiate with his perosnal opinion from both perspectives of JJ and neutral from JJ. Also may he highlight the kind of relations that have come across to him personally while doing works for JJ. By revealing his experience he might be able to motivate people who are in an 'if-fy' kind of situation.
And obvious reasons for asking moderators and senior members to get involved is that have a bigger appeal and they have a larger and an "concentrated"( mods ki baat to dhyaan se sunni hi padegi , na sunenge to ban lag jaayega
) audience.
It might take time , but it should come . That is what i believe.