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Re: Are we ever going to drop this?
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Date: 
Thu, 12 Jun 2003 18:36:08 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Mark Sandlin wrote:
   In lugnet.space, Nathan Wells wrote:
   Look everyone, this needs to stop.

Who are YOU to tell anyone when to stop discussing something? There are a lot of people participating in the discussion, and perhaps as a result, people might learn something. We’ve heard from some people who haven’t posted in a long time. There have been some valuable points made in some recent posts.

I’m not saying the discussion is bad, I’m just getting tired of it an I want to see some MOCs (and before you tell me to go post one myself, I’m working on one right now)

  
   All these arguments about Admirals, newbies vs. oldies, and posting to MOCs and one’s own post hasn’t done much except get everyone mad and losing some excellent MOCs in the flood of arguing posts (look at Sylvia’s awesome Confderate Anti-Gravity Fighter)

Her name is Sylvi, and I don’t think she needs you to bump her posts.

I don’t feel I’m bumping her post, I felt her very cool creation needed to be presented again so other people could look at it. I felt it got lost in all the posts.

   Do you realize that a lot of the unnecessary noise in this newsgroup is from you and Dean bumping posts and posting nothing but sound effects? Please go back and read Bram’s post about Signal vs Noise.

Yes, I know that was a very dumb thing to do, but I apologized, and haven’t done it since.

  
   Can we just shake hands and be friends again?

One of the things younger members must learn is to distinguish discussion from argument.

Define ‘younger”. Is that someone under the age of 20, or a member who joined six mouths ago?





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(...) Then perhaps the best approach would be; "everyone, I'm growing tired of this. Can you please wrap it up, or take it to another group like off-topic.debate?" Coming in and stating authoritatively that it "needs to stop" is a quick way to annoy (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)

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(...) Who are YOU to tell anyone when to stop discussing something? There are a lot of people participating in the discussion, and perhaps as a result, people might learn something. We've heard from some people who haven't posted in a long time. (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)

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