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Re: Civility
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 4 Nov 1999 19:14:16 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Frank Filz writes:
> There seems to be a decline in civility here. It seems that some of the
> incivility is coming from people posting to innapropriate groups. What
> is going on?
An interesting point and queation to match. My own feeling is that some
level of over-work is (perhaps) the reason. I would also venture
a pure guess that, in the case of the person to whom I first responded,
a certain amount of youthful {inexperience|inflexability} is responsible
for the tone and content of his post. I recall the 'first-timers' I
saw running BBS in my own time in that morass. It could well be
that this has turned an otherwise reasonable person into something less.
> On the one hand, do we need to jump down peoples throats the moment they
> cross the line? On the other hand, can't people understand that the
> strength of Lugnet is that discussion is very well broken down into
> individual groups?
No and yes. <grin> Again, off-topic posts occur, both here and on any (every)
other newsgroup that I've ever inhabited. <shrug> Should they be condoned?
No. Should the person be reminded of the charter(s)? Yes, but -first- in
email....and only in 'public' if the person can't catch the first clue.
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> I have to say that I'm getting weary of the all of this.
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> And lest anyone feel why should I be offended by some of the posts. I'm
> not, in fact, I've been reading them, and would continue to read them if
> they were in the right place. I just want to see us try and keep to the
> group charters so that when my time is less free, I can concentrate on
> the topics I am most interested in.
Concur.
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> I don't know, maybe this whole post is just more fuel on the fire, but
> something seems to be going wrong here.
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> --
> Frank Filz
I'm certain that we've seen -far- worse, just as everyone has. It's
regrettable. but hardly life threatening. Just think of the last con-com
meeting you attended <grin>.
Cheers,
Roger
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