Re: [Vo]:Help Vortex
From Steven Krivit: Any or all of us could take responsibility in helping to maintain the effectiveness and integrity of the list. I was not acutely aware that RELIGION and POLITICS were inappropriate subjects here until this recent flare-up. I, of course, thought they were OT, but tolerated. Now if the word from our sponsor (Bill) says that, in fact, RELIGION and POLITICS are inappropriate here, then I won't hesitate to jump in and remind someone about that if I notice it. Nor should anyone else, IMO. Once the reminder is placed in the thread, a yellow (or red) flag is raised. The person is reminded that they have the option to move the thread over to the other forum. Simple and polite. If they don't move it, or they argue, they're bucking for a ban. It is our way of helping Bill to provide this service for us. This is how community works. We make and abide by certain rules and we collectively support them. Yes? Anybody else agree with this? Anybody else willing to help watch the list for (purely) RELIGION and POLITIC threads? (I presume that threads about energy politics are acceptable.) Steve Steve, I'm under the impression that some participants continue to debate whether politics of any kind are acceptable within vortex-l prime. If so that would mean many of your valuable contributions would be considered inappropriate as well. I have just posted another topic, a proposal to consider the creation of a new discussion group, Vortex-LoT [VoT] for the specific purpose of discussing OT views that may have possibly originated within vortex-l prime [Vo]. But with one major difference from [VoB]: The new [VoT] group would be where the same netiquette rules apply. Please see: Discussion/Debate: Creating [VoT] to handle OT discussions And please feel free to comment, pro or con, on the matter. I'm just trying to find out if some might think that such a proposal could turn out to be a good solution...or not. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Re: [Vo]:Help Vortex
3 lists, that would just be unmanageable.Better is a rule of thumb, politics should be allowed as long as it is strictly on topic politics that isn't causing a problem, otherwise as with any other off topic subject it ought to go to B. On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:42 AM, OrionWorks svj.orionwo...@gmail.comwrote: From Steven Krivit: Any or all of us could take responsibility in helping to maintain the effectiveness and integrity of the list. I was not acutely aware that RELIGION and POLITICS were inappropriate subjects here until this recent flare-up. I, of course, thought they were OT, but tolerated. Now if the word from our sponsor (Bill) says that, in fact, RELIGION and POLITICS are inappropriate here, then I won't hesitate to jump in and remind someone about that if I notice it. Nor should anyone else, IMO. Once the reminder is placed in the thread, a yellow (or red) flag is raised. The person is reminded that they have the option to move the thread over to the other forum. Simple and polite. If they don't move it, or they argue, they're bucking for a ban. It is our way of helping Bill to provide this service for us. This is how community works. We make and abide by certain rules and we collectively support them. Yes? Anybody else agree with this? Anybody else willing to help watch the list for (purely) RELIGION and POLITIC threads? (I presume that threads about energy politics are acceptable.) Steve Steve, I'm under the impression that some participants continue to debate whether politics of any kind are acceptable within vortex-l prime. If so that would mean many of your valuable contributions would be considered inappropriate as well. I have just posted another topic, a proposal to consider the creation of a new discussion group, Vortex-LoT [VoT] for the specific purpose of discussing OT views that may have possibly originated within vortex-l prime [Vo]. But with one major difference from [VoB]: The new [VoT] group would be where the same netiquette rules apply. Please see: Discussion/Debate: Creating [VoT] to handle OT discussions And please feel free to comment, pro or con, on the matter. I'm just trying to find out if some might think that such a proposal could turn out to be a good solution...or not. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Re: [Vo]:Help Vortex
In reply to John Berry's message of Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:50:57 +1200: Hi, [snip] 3 lists, that would just be unmanageable. Not necessarily. You can set the filter rules in your email client to send them both to the same folder, and you wouldn't notice the difference. When you click on reply it automatically goes to the right list. Better is a rule of thumb, politics should be allowed as long as it is strictly on topic politics that isn't causing a problem, otherwise as with any other off topic subject it ought to go to B. [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
[Vo]:Help Vortex
Any or all of us could take responsibility in helping to maintain the effectiveness and integrity of the list. I was not acutely aware that RELIGION and POLITICS were inappropriate subjects here until this recent flare-up. I, of course, thought they were OT, but tolerated. Now if the word from our sponsor (Bill) says that, in fact, RELIGION and POLITICS are inappropriate here, then I won't hesitate to jump in and remind someone about that if I notice it. Nor should anyone else, IMO. Once the reminder is placed in the thread, a yellow (or red) flag is raised. The person is reminded that they have the option to move the thread over to the other forum. Simple and polite. If they don't move it, or they argue, they're bucking for a ban. It is our way of helping Bill to provide this service for us. This is how community works. We make and abide by certain rules and we collectively support them. Yes? Anybody else agree with this? Anybody else willing to help watch the list for (purely) RELIGION and POLITIC threads? (I presume that threads about energy politics are acceptable.) Steve
Re: [Vo]:Help Vortex
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Steven Krivitstev...@newenergytimes.com wrote: (I presume that threads about energy politics are acceptable.) Rothwell might disagree. Terry
Re: [Vo]:Help Vortex
Agreed. On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Steven Krivit stev...@newenergytimes.comwrote: Any or all of us could take responsibility in helping to maintain the effectiveness and integrity of the list. I was not acutely aware that RELIGION and POLITICS were inappropriate subjects here until this recent flare-up. I, of course, thought they were OT, but tolerated. Now if the word from our sponsor (Bill) says that, in fact, RELIGION and POLITICS are inappropriate here, then I won't hesitate to jump in and remind someone about that if I notice it. Nor should anyone else, IMO. Once the reminder is placed in the thread, a yellow (or red) flag is raised. The person is reminded that they have the option to move the thread over to the other forum. Simple and polite. If they don't move it, or they argue, they're bucking for a ban. It is our way of helping Bill to provide this service for us. This is how community works. We make and abide by certain rules and we collectively support them. Yes? Anybody else agree with this? Anybody else willing to help watch the list for (purely) RELIGION and POLITIC threads? (I presume that threads about energy politics are acceptable.) Steve
