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Re: Subjects for this newsgroup
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lugnet.people.lgbt
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Mon, 20 Sep 2004 03:39:12 GMT
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In lugnet.people.lgbt, Kevin Wilson wrote:
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There was a good deal of discussion in the admin threads before this
newsgroup was created, about what kind of subjects it might address, and
whether they were more properly housed elsewhere or not. Many people made
good arguments for various points of view.
Certain subjects, we know from experience, are likely to degenerate into
emotionally loaded, heated debates - these include gay-related political and
religious subjects like same sex marriage and references to homosexuality in
the bible.
I would really, really hate to see this newsgroup degenerate into another
place for gay vs straight arguments like we’ve seen previously in
o-t-debate. That would completely destroy the usefulness of this group as
“safe space”.
So, can I *request* - on a purely personal level since I have no official
standing of any kind here - that everyone has the courtesy to delay posting
predictably-divisive subjects until we’ve had a chance to do a little
community development?
I anticipate that someone will cry “censorship” at this point. It’s not.
It’s a request for your consideration.
Thanks
Kevin
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Makes sense in a kind of “feel it out” sort of way. What I am afraid of is that
there will be a bunch of anti-LGBT people who post here wanting to start
trouble. I am pretty sure this applies:
http://news.lugnet.com/people/lgbt/?n=14
To tell you the thruth, this newsgroup many need a month or two before many LGBT
people actually feel comfortable posting here because of this whole debate. Oh
well.
-Alfred
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| "Alfred Speredelozzi" <alfredjr@alum.rpi.edu> wrote in message news:I4BM5C.2Dv@lugnet.com... (...) I will not sit here and be verbally attacked. That post was a sincere post which I thought relevant to this new thread under the terms of use and (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.people.lgbt)
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| (...) I'm with Alfred here--this NG is going to be like a lightning rod for those that want to prove a point--"Oh look, an article about the badness of homosexuality' or 'look, another dumb law excluding homosexuals from partaking in the same (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.people.lgbt, FTX)
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| (...) Please explane why you conclude his question is hostile? Having read the thread, it seems that most pleople aswering to this post didn't share your negative feeling about it. With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.people.lgbt, FTX)
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| There was a good deal of discussion in the admin threads before this newsgroup was created, about what kind of subjects it might address, and whether they were more properly housed elsewhere or not. Many people made good arguments for various points (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.people.lgbt)
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