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Re: Subjects for this newsgroup
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lugnet.people.lgbt
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Mon, 20 Sep 2004 04:01:41 GMT
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"Alfred Speredelozzi" <alfredjr@alum.rpi.edu> wrote in message
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> In lugnet.people.lgbt, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> > 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
>
> 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:
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> <http://news.lugnet.com/people/lgbt/?n=14>
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> 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
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
charter of this thread. How dare you... And here I am trying to learn
"how" to live with this new thread and trying to better myself with
knowledge, albeit, form all sides of the story.
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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: (URL) To tell you the thruth, this newsgroup many (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.people.lgbt, FTX)
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