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In lugnet.admin.nntp, William R. Ward wrote:
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Hopefully this move will take the steam out of all the color-change
complainers and let us get back to our hobby.
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I’m not sure I agree with that phrasing. No one is trying to take the steam out,
per se, people should be free to express themselves if they can do so politely
and positively. What *is* desired is that the steam be channeled and regulated
so it does useful work instead of just shrilly escaping and clouding the view of
everyone else, or building up and causing an explosion. (if you’ll forgive me
stretching the metaphor)
Jake started a number of important and useful threads to get feedback about what
he ought to be pushing for, and they all got derailed, at least in part, by
repetitive posts that berated him and the company, expressed opinions we already
knew the posters had, and weren’t on topic for the thread.
Arguably a lot of those initial posts by Jake should NOT have even been in
.general in the first place, which was part of the problem. Posters,
understandably, just hit reply. But people should be willing to give a little
thought to where a post belongs, in my view. (no one is perfect in this regard,
I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve flubbed by just pressing reply. But I try
to accept others pointing out my error or helping steer my posts back to where
they belong with some grace (not always, I admit!))
But here’s the important point... In my view repetitive posts that are abusive
and don’t add any new information don’t belong anywhere on LUGNET at all. If all
someone wants to add to a thread is “the new bley sucks” OR “the new grey is a
major improvement” it’s not adding much at this point. No matter where that
thread is.
BUT, if they have something to talk about that’s color related and isn’t just a
rant we’ve already heard, we now have a group for it so that they don’t have to
threadjack.
That’s my view.
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| (...) I for one think it's a great idea - one I had not thought of until I saw Todd's announcement, but I hit myself thinking "why didn't I think of that?" It is a move deisgned to discourage the expression of negative opinions about the color (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.color, FTX)
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