Adam McLane

Great discussion

As I made mention of the other day, Youth Ministry Exchange is raising it’s rate. Part of the rate change is that we offered existing members a small window where they could get 3 years of our service at a great price.

A little side benefit of this has been an amazing side discussion that has caught fire about the very nature of our online community. It’s quite fascinating to hear why different people use our site, what they expect from the site, as well as their assumptions about how the site operates.

My one hope is that we are as transparent as we can possibly be.

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    the Thief

    The copy editor in me says: you mean “its” instead of “it’s” in the first sentence.

    As for transparency, yeah, I get it to an extent. But several areas foster knee-jerk arguing rather than transparent dialogue – more attack than love.

    When one feels attacked, what does one do?
    Fight back? (pretty transparent)
    Pretend that it didn’t happen? (not transparent at all)
    Leave? (again, not transparent)
    Forgive and Reconcile? (transparent if this is allowed to happen)

    The problem with transparency and a forum like YMX is that everyone comes with an agenda. For some that agenda is the goal of making the site the best it can be. For others, that agenda is finding youth ministry resources. For others, it’s debate. For others, it’s community, friendship, and somewhere to tell random stories. For others, it provides a somewhat anonymous place to vent.

    So you can be as transparent as it suits your goals…

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