On Tuesday 15 Sep 2009 9:56:22 pm Raman.P wrote: > > The discussions get sometimes passionate because people > > care about an issue. Yes, they sometimes get out of hand, > > but it is the outcome of some debates. If somebody is being > > irrational, I'm sure the community will reprimand him. > > Kicking out spammers is one matter, but kicking out people > > because they expressed opinions is an entirely different > > matter. The whole question of "how much is too much" will > > itself cause plenty of useless discussions. > > There is no problem with technical discussion and differences on such > issues. But off late we see lot of useless discussions generating heat. > They put off newbies. As a result the LUG suffers a lot. > > Compare the response for volunteering we got in 2004 with 2009. Till date > nobody volunteered for several topics. That is a shame on us. One of the > main cause is too much of noise resulting in students running away. I tell > this based on personal experiences while interacting with students. > > My request, please confine discussion to technical and organizational > matters only.
I find of late I am wasting a lot of time in useless discussion. But one man's signal is another man's noise. What is useless for me may be useful for you. At the same time we have the option to ignore posts of 'noise-makers' - I have started filtering out such people on all the lists I belong to. Since their posts now go to trash, I do not get annoyed by reading them and they do not get annoyed by my replies. Life has suddenly become more peaceful! -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
