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Re: Porthole alternative
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 1 Mar 2002 01:26:28 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, David Koudys writes:
> > it was a banterish reply. No where in this response do I see 'Lar, you're
> full of it and I ain't listening to you', or 'Nyaah Nyaah Nyaah, lookit what
> I did so there!' What I read was a legitimate response laying out why he
> posted what he did where he did, and questioned the rationale of having
> things continue into '3 off-topic messages'.
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> Further, I will reiterate that his original post was in .trains 'cause it
> had to do with train portholes, and his followup message, though not
> specifically referring to .trains, it had a legitimate purpose in that it
> was a *follow-up* post, letting the train people who may have been planning
> on getting some portholes could no longer do that. Then the topic would
> have been dead, defunct and we would have all gone on our merry way. I love
> going on my merry way, it makes me so happy.
>
> Did anyone ever see Soul Man... It's a comedy movie from the '80's...
> One scene, kid driving down the road, followed closely by the cops. Cops
> were *waiting* for the kid to do *something* slightly out of place. Kid
> swerves to avoid someone's car door opening, cops pull him over and arrest
> him for he 'crossed the yellow line', the legitmate reason was irrelevant to
> the cops, they just wnated to bust the kid.
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> This is Community Policing.
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> This is what I have an issue with.
Hey! Same here! Sure, it's fine if somebody corrects an error, but It really
gets bad when they self appoint themselves as LUGNET police. It takes all
the fun out of the original discussion,and turns it into a flame war,
something I don't like to familiarize myself with.
> This is not the "oh gosh aren't we one big happy family that can get along"
> LUGNET that I would personally like to see.
Nope, I personally think policing is good only If you don't publicly
humiliate the poster. They should take it to email.
> This is not small "cp" community policing.
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> This is thin skinned people who are quick to respond, quicker to anger,
> quickest to involve admins.
Well said!
> This is George Orwell's 1984 or THX1138 where 'big brother' scans the
> entirety of LUGNET looking for, in their minds, badness and to lock it down,
> first with (hopefully at least) a politely phrased warning and then
> immediately blowing it up.
>
> Who caused the ruckus? Not Bram. Nor was it looking like he was about to
> cause a ruckus.
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> 'Nother Dave scenario:
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> "Hmm, I've appeared to cut my finger."
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> "Here's a band-aid."
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> "Thanks, but it still hurts."
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> "K, let's chop off the entire arm."
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> Well, I've gone off enuf this time, and I'm quite confident that this issue
> is now resolved to the betterment of LUGNET in general.
Yes, resolution is sweet.
> Dave
<<_Matt Hein_>>
Lugnet member No. 1112
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| "Matt Hein" <Pyrokid17@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Gs9tC4.Hys@lugnet.com... (...) The illustration above is not at all what I picture Larry's actions to be. Nor is it what I picture anyone else's actions who has advocated community policing (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Nope, that's not what anyone is saying. There would have been a point reached where, had the replies continued, it should have been moved to wherever else if it had nothing to do with trains. It's like, hypothetically, RCX newsgroup, "Hey I'm (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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