From: Charles Hixsn (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Aug 12 2003 - 09:32:30 MDT
Max M wrote:
> ...Enforcing the rules are "A Good Thing"
>
> The more the conversation is keept on track, the more interresting it
> is, and it would not hurt to get 50 just quality mails a day instead
> of 100 partly off-topic.
>
> regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark
Doesn't this depend on what the rules are? "For the good of the
community" is the kind of waffle-speak that could mean anything. If you
must not act "In ways injurious to the community", then what procedure
is used to decide? How can you know ahead of time whether or not any
particular utterance will be found in violation?
Sorry. "No personal attacks" can be decided on. "the good of the
community" is undecideable on rational grounds.
I can't really make a libertarian argument against this action, as this
list is a private organization. But to the extent that it is a public
forum, then this change in the rules seems anti-libertarian. (I can't
say anti-extropian, as I don't have the right to define what that
means...that's up to the members of extropy.org. But I know what
liberty means. And the enforcement of undecideable rules isn't a part
of it.)
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