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Re: Are we all too nice?
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Jim Hughes wrote:
> A flame group will not serve any constructive purpose (how many flame wars
> have you read wherethere was any real resolution of the issue) but will
> engender bad feelings amoung the participants, both in the flame group and
> probably in any other group where these same participants interact, resulting
> in an unintended spill over effect into the rest of the NG's. Because of this
> I feel that over time the level of civility in general would decrease and
> finally, back to where I started, I think that there would be an increase in
> noise and decrease in content.
A counterpoint on this is that there are people who spar pretty hard in
.debate who otherwise are the best of friends. Of course there is a
difference in that the culture of .debate encourages attempting to stay
above the muck and _debate_ not flame.
--
Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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| Well, I have read all of these latest developments with some concern and thought that a few comments were in order. For the most part I am a little below the radar for the off-topic/debate crowd but I still read a pretty fair percentage of the posts (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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