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Re: Uselessness of .debate
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lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 18 Dec 2000 19:52:11 GMT
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Call me elitist... (and I don't think I'm 100% disagreeing)

In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Eric Joslin writes:

I guess, since I want to see Lugnet flourish, I am in favor of doing whatever
makes people most likely to become members, given the kind of person that they
are.

I'm not. That is, I'm not for enabling *everyone* to be a member. There are
certain people I would be happy to see not join, heck, not even participate
here. There are only a handful of them I can name, but we had a recent
example of the sort of disruptiveness that can be caused by such.

More generally, though I think Dave! hit on a great idea.. find the things
that give large benefits to certain members, and get revenue from them,
*without* becoming exclusionary to all who would participate peacefully and
productively.

For example, I'd gladly pay a per posting charge for each auction flog I
posted to market.auction (however this is a tough idea to structure
correctly... do I have to pay for answering a question someone else raised
about some auction someone else posted?)

++Lar

++Lar



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  Re: Uselessness of .debate
 
(...) they (...) Mmm. That'll teach me to go around not qualifying my statements. Clearly, I don't think that the rules should be mutated too much to encourage everyone (coughMatthewMoultoncough) to join up- on the other hand, if subtle changes to (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Uselessness of .debate
 
(...) Well that could be handled by having two groups. One for conducting auction business (soliciting bids) and one for asking questions about auctions. Then you just TOS quickly anyone who regularly manages to "announce" their auction in the Q&A (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Uselessness of .debate
 
(...) Actually, those two are great ideas, IMHO. I wonder how many people that aren't members post updates about their LEGO eBay auctions on Lugnet, and never give back to the upkeep of Lugnet... I hadn't ever thought of that before. And the admin (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)

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