On 9/14/18, 12:50 PM, "Joshua D. Drake" <[email protected]> wrote:
On 09/14/2018 07:41 AM, James Keener wrote:
> > Community is people who joined it
>
> We're not a "community."
I do not think you are going to get very many people on board with that
argument. As anyone who knows me will attest I am one of the most
contrarian members of this community but I still agree that it is a
community.
JD
As Bill Clinton said in another context, "it all depends on the meaning of
'community'". 'Community' is a very tricky word with uncertain boundaries and
variable degrees of belonging to it. Moreover, it's reciprocal: 'you' and the
'community' may have different ideas of whether or how you belong. Rules in
communities are usually tacit. You might almost want to say that if you need to
write rules you no longer have a community. Writing community rules is a very
and probably hopeless endeavor.
For quite a while the word 'community' has been grossly overused and has often
been invoked as a way of creating a sense of community where there is reason to
doubt whether the thing is there in the first place.
'Civil' and 'civility' are more modest words with more modest goals that are
perhaps easier to capture in language. When it comes to a code of civil
conduct, less is more. If you use more than the words of the ten commandments
you almost certainly have gone too far. I have yet to see a posting on this
list that would suggest an urgent need for trying to regulate what contributors
say or how they say it.
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