Cheers to FN on this.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Frederick Noronha" <[email protected]>
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Noise ratio on Goanet too much. Time to unsubscribe?
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
