Posted by Jock on March 14, 2008 at 00:36:52 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot or not Beckfoot. posted by Peter H on March 14, 2008 at 23:21:47:
if I may quote more from your post, you mentioned the need for a moderator to be employed "to discourage the put down comments which can ruin the creativity of the process". To me this sounds like stifling the opposition
What I actually said about brainstorming was. Not everybody likes the freedom of expression that a brainstorming session encourages, particularly people comfortable in a traditional hierarchical environment. To get the best from such a session a skilled moderator is employed to discourage the put down comments which can ruin the creativity of the process.
Some brainstorming groups have no need for such role. But brainstorming is only part of a larger whole. Critical analysis is essential, but this is applied using an agreed set of criteria after the initial brainstorming is complete.
Thus it is with TarBoard. You were very quick to knock the Beckfoot Plumbing topic when Ed brought it up But we kept it going and gave it a thread to itself. This thread gave us: