Purpose of this Newsgroup

From: ColinForbes <timewyrm@suilven.demon.co.uk>

Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hurray! Sanity!

MadCentral wrote:

> The tossers learn nothing by being shouted down, unfortunately.
> There are some things you just *dont say* to people if you are a
> reasonable and polite person.
> For example, your own replys, while they do not agree with me, were
> polite and reasoned.  If people *all* talked like that on this list
> we'd have a healthy, lively place full of interesting discussion and
> useful argument.  Instead we have people like Roy Pollard taking every
> opportunity to slate people they have decided they don't like (Ken, in
> this instance) for no obvious reason other than to shout their rude
> mouths off.

There are a large number of people who in gneral don't post here very
often simply because of the juvenile and somewhat vitriolic discussions
which go on. Someone commenbted a while back that it was a shame that
this newsgroup wasn't used much to promote PBM. An interesting point -
but pause to consider what sort of an advert this newsgroup actually is.
If I stumbled across it, I'd run away very quickly and probably be
rather put of PBM as a result.

I wondered what people hoped to get out of this newsgroup? It would be
nice to see informed discussions on a variety of PBM related topics,
held in a civilised manner. If you disagree with someone, then fine -
but come up with a reasoned argument rather than insults, it's amusing
at first but soon becomes boring.

If you want this newsgroup to be used to promote PBM then we need, as
Carol commented, to have remarks along the lines of..
"Still playing in xxx game. This is why I like/dislike it etc etc"

Sadly the nearest we get to that is thinly disguised adverts along the
lines of "This game is really cool, check it out at this site".

But I suppoose I'll get flamed for this...

Colin.

References

Re: Vampire
tim@leaphome.pelican.org (Tim Franklin)
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Vampire
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Mon, 13 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Vampire
tim@leaphome.pelican.org (Tim Franklin)
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Vampire
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Mon, 13 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000