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Re: Concerns with Racial Attitudes and Lego
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Fri, 8 Sep 2000 12:11:11 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tim Courtney writes:
> > [...]
> > So - if you have something to say, say it in a way that won't gravely
> > offend people who are sitting on the other side of the fence.
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> Always good advice! Yes!
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> > EVERYONE I talked to about this debate, in person and online, has been
> > very upset by it. They also wish this debate would die.
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> IMO, no debate here deserves to die so long as people are still being calm
> and principled and the debate is taking place in the most appropriate group
> (often .off-topic.debate).
>
> The .off-topic.debate are is _for_ debates. It's can be for UGLY debates
> (provided that people are still being calm and principled, of course). If
> what's talked about in .off-topic.debate upsets someone, they should stop
> reading that group. If a debate starts in a regular group, and it upsets
> someone, they should kindly ask people to move heated discussions to
> .off-topic.debate. If the debate is still on-topic and shouldn't be moved,
> people should be *extra* considerate to the readership of that group.
One random thought from out of the blue: Several people have commented
that they now primarily use the web interface for reading. When this is
used, you see the whole thread no matter where it has wandered. Perhaps
the web interface should by default not show the posts which are not in
the same group as the currently displayed post. A button (or cookie
option) would change it to full thread view. The connections which move
out of the current group could be shown as a dotted line leading to
nothing.
Another thing relative to large threads. Could we have an option of
showing the dots for some locality around the current post? The huge
threads are very difficult to read on the web (and can be difficult to
read with a newsreader if you want to follow branches out of the current
group).
--
Frank Filz
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Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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