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Re: April Fools posts
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 7 Apr 2001 03:27:39 GMT
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I stick my toe in this one with trepidation.
Mark and Frank are both right, I think. So is Bram. I can't be more precise
about it without analysing the whole thing to death. And doing THAT... why,
it changes the tone in the wrong direction.
I want LUGNET to be a place where people have fun, but not at the expense of
others, or at least not in a mean spirited way on a regular basis.
I want LUGNET to be a place where people care about how other people take
their words, but not so much that they refrain from saying anything
substantive for fear of hurting someone's feelings somewhere.
I want LUGNET to be a place where people can have spirited discussions and
yet not beat the same tired debating topics to death.
I want LUGNET to be a place where social engineering is stigmatized. Yet I
am scared that my wants, above, are in fact a bit of that very social
engineering! And I am scared that talking about how to make things more fun
and more open and more <insert good thing> will itself make things less fun
and less open and worse. Ack!
Does anyone else feel that way about all this too?
Let me repeat. Mark and Frank and Bram are all correct.
I feel better for saying the above and at the same time worried. I have seen
organizations (even loose ones) go through changes before and it's never
fun. My fraternity changed character while I was there, twice. Not fun at
all. IBMPC (the internal to IBM conferencing disk) changed character a LOT
while I was there (I was one of the early adopters). Not fun.
<snip>
++Lar
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| (...) Yea. I'm probably guilty of over analyzing things, but that's my nature I guess. In certain places it works very well. In other places it leaves very well tenderized horse meat around. (...) Lugnet is certainly going through some changes. A (...) (23 years ago, 7-Apr-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | RE: April Fools posts
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| (...) Yes, but by saying so, I continue to kick the dead horse. Augh! I promised myself I was done with this thread, but this paradox wouldn't let me go :) --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 7-Apr-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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