On 10 July 2010 07:05, Clinton Vaz <[email protected]> wrote: > Admins, please moderate such comments from known trolls. I, as many others > probably, have even considered un-subscribing from Goanet, as the noise > ratio has gone up so much that it makes searching for normal emails just too > much of an effort.
Clinton, ...and you thought free-speech came without a price? This price, I would say, is putting up with the trolls, people out to derail debates, and those who personalise everything to I-me-you said-I didn't say, and so on. I agree that the way Goanet reads in Goa (sometimes clueless, at times repetitive, often irrelevant to issues on the ground) is vastly different from how it is perceived among, say, someone in the diaspora, who might find it a useful tool through which to keep in touch with home. On the flip side, the benefit of an open debate is that so many issues we didn't even suspect existed surface! I'm sure the last fortnight's debate -- despite their space-consuming nature -- has helped sharpen our understanding about how politics really works in Goa. Newspapers mostly report what happens at the surface, external level! The debates here take things to another pitch. I am all for reading different perspectives on the same issue. I am not for personalising our differences of opinion, and targeting the person instead of the issue. My delete key has worn out more than the others :-) And I'm sure that I too must be responsible for that on the keyboards of others... FN
