[Tango-L] About Reddit tango discussion

[Michael]

There's another forum:
http://www.dance-forums.com/forums/tango-argentino.9/


Michael
Came home to New York where the Argentine Tango is better


-----Original Message-----
From: Kace Tango
Subject: [Tango-L] About Reddit tango discussion

Hi List,

It was fantastic that this discussion list was given a new lease of life
last year (kudos to Shahrukh).

But level of activity seems to have fallen way down in the past few months.
Even organisers seem to have stopped posting announcements.

What took the air out of this list, in my opinion, is that nobody is asking
interesting questions anymore.

Why?
-- Probably because newbies entering the scene do not know about this forum,
-- Most of the oldies already knew the answers for everything they wish to
know.

(Of course there are still many new questions being asked, but mostly these
live in Facebook or live chats or other ephemeral medium).

Without fresh questions to launch discussions, this list is not getting the
kind of vigorous and diverse information sharing that used to generate
fantastic mega-threads and make this list an essential daily reading and
worthy of being archived for future referencing.

With that context in mind, I like to introduce the Reddit website -- tagged
"the front page of the Internet" -- with 140million monthly readers.
(Full disclosure: I am a moderator on Reddit's /r/tango community)

The tango forum (http://reddit.com/r/tango) is still a tiny group of less
than 1000 readers, but most of them are newbies and therefore have many
questions.
In the past month, these questions were discussed:

= Very stressed at tango
= Beginner try dancing outside of classes, very crowded, what to do = How to
find inexpensive lessons = Do both partners need to know tango = Where to
buy tango shoes

The Reddit software allows anonymous posting, and all posts are voted by the
community to bubble the most interesting topics to the first page of the
"hot" list, and drop the mundane ones to the later pages. Non-registered
members can read but cannot post or vote.

Each week we plug link headlines from various news publications, blogs,
youtubes, media releases and crowdfunding projects that are connected to
Tango.
I'm hoping for more posts about history, culture and the growth  of the
world scene, topics that can make big differences.

I would be most excited to have you visit from time to time, and contribute
your nuggets of wisdom.

Kace