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Re: Why these news groups were created
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:33:58 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Dave Schuler wrote:
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, John Neal wrote:
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ISN”T THAT THE WHOLE POINT? If you start splintering off sub-groups, it
will never end! Now is the time to pause and consider the ramifications of
having done this. It is like a pandora’s box, and I don’t see it as having
any benefit to the AFOL community as a whole (not to mention the youth).
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Oh, won’t someone please think of the children?!?
This is the same panic-driven slippery-slope reasoning that is used to
justify all kinds of anti-gay action, so it’s fitting that it should pop up
here as well. It’s pointless scaremongering to wave a red flag and claim that
the creation of subgroups will never end if one or two or ten or twenty
groups are added. It’s a ridiculous charge--groups will be added only as they
are perceived by the powers-that-be to be needed or desired by the community,
and that’s how it should be. I can personally verify that your fears of
infinite subgroups are unfounded, because I have witnessed numerous requests
for new subgroups go unanswered. Apparently someone is at the wheel, and
someone seems to have an idea of how to exercise restraint.
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I am not against creating 1,000s of subgroups. But as a result of doing this,
it has created in my mind the need to sequester those groups from....THE
CHILDREN. Yes, you can jest if you like, but there has already been a backlash
against the “content” of the discussions on LUGNET (and many from abroad)(I
didn’t catch her name;-) and I agree with them. It’s not that I have a problem
with LGBTers talking about their experiences, for instance, it’s that I have a
problem with those discussions happening on a public forum that is supposedly
“kid-friendly”. Make the .people hierarchy OT and make all of the OT groups
only accessible by adults, and the adults can do whatever the adults want. We
can all be extra careful WRT to language and topics on LUGNET public, and let
our hair down in private in OT. Seems like a win-win to me.
JOHN
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| (...) Oh, won't someone please think of the children?!? This is the same panic-driven slippery-slope reasoning that is used to justify all kinds of anti-gay action, so it's fitting that it should pop up here as well. It's pointless scaremongering to (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp, FTX)
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