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Re: Keeping it sane...
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Thu, 5 Dec 2002 21:18:14 GMT
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Although I agree with you whole-heartedly Dave K., I would argue that your
post is debatably undebatable, and as such it does not belong on this
message board. ...It is also very on-topic. Please submit this sort of
thing to .on-topic.agreeable.
<snicker>
-Hendo
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:
> I read a few message boards daily, and one that I often frequent has a
> policy in place--
>
> No religious/political debate.
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> They implemented that policy 'cause, invariably, the discussion would get,
> usually quite quickly, bogged down into a 'flame war'.
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> First I commend the folks partaking in these types of threads here on LUGNET
> for, for the most bit, not getting to that point.
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> Second, I appreciate that LUGNET seems to attract a specific sort of
> person--a mature (as mature as an AFOL can be, I guess ;) ) and
> well-educated person who can articulate his or her point well enough to get
> it across to others, even if, for some, english isn't their language of choice.
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> Third, the moderators (if o.t-d ever gets moderated) don't raise their
> 'ban-stick' at all. This allows for greater discourse on the debates at
> hand, and the community itself is self-policing.
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> Fourth--if we took out politics and religion for debatable topics, where
> would that leave us? ;)
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> When I first came to LUGNET many moons ago, there was an issue about
> Community Policing. Well, I'm here today saying that, whatever side I came
> down on then (can't remember), this community does work, it does flourish,
> and it continues to offer the participants with a forum that is a pleasure
> to read (even if I don't agree with some points made).
>
> LUGNET may not be the 'friendliest place on the internet' anymore (though
> for me the jury's still out on that--when was the last time an all-out flame
> war closed boards around here) but I appreciate it, and thank the owners,
> moderators, and participants for making it a good place for me.
>
> Dave K.
> -this post was brought to you by the simple fact that other boards I visit
> really suck(1)
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> (1) the perceived 'suckage'(2) of the other message boards, is wholly in the
> participants POV and has no legal or overriding bearing as to whether the
> boards in question really do suck or not.
>
> (2) A legalistic term for something that is not quite good.
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| I read a few message boards daily, and one that I often frequent has a policy in place-- No religious/political debate. They implemented that policy 'cause, invariably, the discussion would get, usually quite quickly, bogged down into a 'flame war'. (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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