Re: Public Flame Wars

From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Greg (not Greg Lindahl, the other one)

Im no longer part of the current flame thingy, having found it boring and
pointless, and having doubts as to whether I was doing any good or just being
part of the problem,  I dropped out of it.  But ....

While your message was well-meaning, it fails to make any impact whatsoever for
a few key reasons.

>>It takes away from the prupose of this list.<<

This list doesn't have a ''purpose''.  Nobody owns it, nobody controls it and
nobody can tell anybody else how to post on it (within certain usenet
guidelines I believe).  Its a nice idea to try and follow a code of behaviour
here, but your statement still had no real bearing on the list itself.

>>It detracts from your professionalism.<<

Everybody has their own ideas as to what is and is not professional, and most
people dont come here in a ''professional'' capacity anyway, so why would they
care?

>>It makes all parties to this public debacle look shallow, discourteous, and
unprofessional, not to mention silly.<<

Certainly it does this sometimes, but again everybody has their own ideas about
this.

>>It drives away people from the list who want to talk about "issues" and
games instead of becoming involved in flamewars.<<

Its a nice argument, but none of the people you are directing this message to
are going to care.  Because nobody here *really* considers this list as a 'PBM
Nexus' (come on everybody, its not is it?), its just a place to chat, argue or
whatever.

I like to try and be polite where possible, but I don't see myself as having
some job here to ''encourage new people'' to post or discuss here.  if they
want to, they will.  If they are frightened by the voracity of the posting
here, fair enough.  I don't care.  Very few of us see ourselves in the role of
''publicity agents for PB(e)M'' 24 hours a day.  Quite often, we just want to
chat how *we* want to chat, and this is a place to do that.

I support your attempt at making this a ''nicer place'', but surely you can see
that since *nobody* has any power to enforce anything, its never going to be
what *you* want it to be, is it?

Steve T.

References

Public Flame Wars
"Greg Ellis" <gnellis@ifn.net>
Tue, 11 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Public Flame Wars
"Greg Ellis" <gnellis@ifn.net>
Tue, 11 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000