Guys, please don’t leave. If you leave, you just surrender a useful resource to some behaviourally challenged individuals and it’s a dead loss to everyone else.
The right thing to do is: 1. Contact the mods and/or owner. 2. Filter your email. Mail.app will do it on macOS; iOS has a block feature for recognised senders and a mute thread feature to stop the notifications; iCloud and other providers will let you set up rules. You don’t need to help those who’ve decided to surrender to their communitarian instincts. 3. Join other lists in case the signal/noise ratio on this list doesn’t return. 4. If you have the time, educate the poor darlings. Most of them are simply insulated, not actively malicious or bad people. Their regressive ideologies are the product of an easy and culturally homogeneous lifestyle, and their conspiratorial hatred is only being encouraged and exploited by some very nasty individuals for their own material ends. The key point is that tolerance and forgiveness of others is not incompatible with a sense of place and happiness; their hearts are, in all likelihood, big enough for everybody, even those who are in some insubstantial way different from themselves. Needless to say, do that off-list. 5. Try very hard not to reply reflexively or emotionally. It’ll just add to the noise and the heat, and more people will feel the need to leave. Cheers, Sabahattin -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/85F7E69F-F882-4D16-A736-FFA2E00BC16F%40me.com.
