Sir,
It was not my intent to start a firestorm. For that I apologize.
Perhaps my blood sugar was a little low and I got cranky and
responded too quickly to Kurt's email. Normally I would wait a day
before hitting the send button and likely or not I wouldn't have sent
it or I would have heavily edited it.
I think perhaps I did not put across exactly why I think that post
should not be on this list. There are certain conspiracy theories out
there that have a small basis in fact but then take the facts and
extrapolate out until they make good science fiction plots but are no
longer factual. Kurt invariably likes to copy and paste from websites
devoted to these conspiracy theories and post them to the list. I do
not mind the off topic health type questions. But Kurt does not post
questions, he proselytizes like a politician or priest about subjects
that cause division where ever they are discussed. If, in the course
of answering health related questions, those topics Kurt loves happen
to come up and in his own words he discussed them in relation to the
question then I would not object. Indeed, I would likely respond with
a counterpoint post. But it is his method to drop a copy/paste email
bomb out of the blue not in response to any current threads. This
type of post is not conducive to the conversation. One cannot create
a counter post as you would not be talking to the poster but to the
person who wrote the website Kurt is copying and pasting from and
that person will never see the counter post.
If you have saved all the posts do a sort on kmilkowski. He started
posting 9-14-07. He consistently posts off topic about his 3 favorite
pet conspiracy theories chemtrails, vaccinations, and poisoned food
supplies, which have nothing to do with our current conversations. He
usually starts these as new threads and pulls the list way out there
into science fiction land.
I think your existing policies are good and don't need changing. My
beef is with Kurts obsession with conspiracy theories about
chemtrails, vaccinations, and poisoned food supplies and his need to
share that obsession with us over and over and his method of sharing
which excludes argument.
David
At 12:03 AM 8/24/2008, you wrote:
So, I'm open to specific suggestions or ideas. In light of the points
I've made above, please tell me:
How much traffic is too much? Off topic versus on-topic?
Do you feel my basic policies need to be changed or updated?
Should I do a better job of enforcing them? How, specifically?
Should we stop answering non-CS-related health questions entirely?
Should we ban *all* politics-related posts, no matter their importance?
Or is the existing policy (brief, occasional, little or no discussion)
good enough if it's enforced?
Should I more vigorously police the "style" of certain messages so as
not to scare new people off or annoy the regulars?
Any other points you think I've not covered yet?
Thank you for your patience, ladies and gentlemen. It's not a bad thing
to air grievances and sound each other out every once in a while,
though I *will* get riled if folks make a habit of spouting off their
objections on the list instead of privately! <scowls at David!>
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