On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 05:21, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Chris Browet <c...@semperpax.com> wrote: > > But every opinions should have a place to voice themselves, shouldn't > they? > > No. Not all opinions are helpful. And certainly, sheer volume of > opinions is unhelpful. > Pfff... Ok, welcome to Tropico island... > > > > If Talk becomes moderated/censured, where would that be? > > Wouldn't it better to create specific, on-topic moderated lists (and > > moderate the existing ones) rather than moderating "Talk", whose topic is > > not obvious? > > > > Then people who don't want the noise can just turn it off, while leaving > a > > place of "free speech", and topic-focused lists would be sane... > > If anything, I would do the opposite: tightly moderate Talk as a > community forum where issues of all nature can be discussed, if done > You realize "tightly moderate" and "issues of all nature" are somewhat contradictory, do you? > so constructively and succinctly. Individual specialist lists could be > left unmoderated. Since the numbers of subscribers are lower, they can > form and enforce their own standards more easily. > > Btw, once more, this notion of "those who don't want the spam don't > have to read it" is just plain wrong. The spam overwhelms the valuable > discussion, meaning everyone suffers. It's not a question of "if you > don't like the rain, don't stand in it". > > Whatever, I give up... It's not like the community still has a say, anyway...
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