Re: mic lines not working as well as they used to...

[Tim Wicinski <[e-mail]>]

Sorry Barry, I don't claim to keep up with the chat + room discussion, I
can't.
But I do like reading all of it and I find it useful when we chairs work
out the next
steps (which I feel doesn't always have to be during the meeting).



On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 11:26 AM Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 2022-11-23, at 17:17, Barry Leiba <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> > I find it completely impossible to
> > keep up with the discussion in the room *and* active discussion on
> > meetecho.
>
> [meetecho ➔ chat
> And, as Gorry notes, there is also the hedgedoc channel...]
>
> > Clearly, though, I'm in the minority here.
>
> Well, people who *think* they can handle this kind of frantic multitasking
> may be prone to the multitasking fallacy — multitasking tends to evenly
> split a human's IQ between the threads…
>
> That said, being able to put in some point in the chat while the
> microphone queue is discussing some random tangent to death is very, very
> useful.
> It’s usually only a problem when the chat turns into a true discussion,
> requiring more attention than the oral discussion.
>
> Grüße, Carsten
>
>