From: Spike (spike66@comcast.net)
Date: Fri Jul 18 2003 - 17:55:00 MDT
> > ExI's best days are yet before of us. Let us
> > cut down on rancor and fan the flames of progress.
> > We are on the eve of construction.
>
> OK, but let's not just say it as a matter of faith.
> Let's take real action.
Sure but the action is on the part of each one
of us, not anything on the part of ExI or a
list moderator. I am not proposing we moderate
the list at all, but rather suggesting that when
flamed, take the high road, don't flame back,
let it slide like water off a duck's back.
> What exact changes do you propose to make that will cut down on
> rancor? If no changes are made, none will occur. Harvey Newstrom...
The change is a voluntary non-reply policy to those posts
that make one want to flame. That was my interpretation
of that thing I heard about where a moderator asked
some folks not to reply to this or that. I didn't
think of it as any kind of censorship, but rather
like a friendly bartender asking a couple of
quarrelling drunks to cool it down a bit. It
really won't hurt us to just ignore those posts
that are mean-spirited or inflammatory.
Harvey, you, I and Natasha and Gina Miller are the
only extropians in the flyweight division (127 lbs and
under). Instead of flame wars we can settle it
in a friendly four way coleslaw-rassling match
at the next extrocon. {8^D spike
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