Re: Flame

From: Adrian@NoSpam.compulink.co.uk (Adrian Neal)

Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000

In article <dbmB2.1666$ja3.551@news-reader.bt.net>, warrior@zen.co.uk
(Warrior Games - News) wrote:

> I am fairly new to the email/internet scene and I read most of all that
> is
> posted here but I see that the whole communication level on this
> newsgroup
> is sub-human and always degenerates into insults, unless you have a
> sense of
> humour and take it with a pinch of salt.
>
> Even so, I am guilty of being part of the "Im incensed brigade" when it
> hits
> a raw nerve.
>
> I feel that in game newsgroups are the best form of communicating info
> and
> this will always be the flame city it has now become.
>
> Can anyone remember when this 1st started what its main principles
> were? and
> if so can we have them posted. I'm tired of people here trying to out
> do the
> others with smart words and trash anothers ideas or ideals.
>
> In the last post by Phil Sulking, I was disgusted at his attitude
> towards
> PBM and so wrote my mind, but there were others that replied to mine and
> others responses with big words and psycho clap trap that had no other
> intention that to further the argument, hence my responses were jokey
> and
> un-committal.
>
> And when I asked for comments on the inclusion of drugs in a PBM game
> the
> first few were civilised and I tried to draw it to a close, what
> happened,
> it degenerated into a slanging match about whose football team was best
> and
> who beat who, why should I or others waste there time reading it when it
> gets that way.
>
> I feel this is why we hear from the same people time and again on this
> NG.
>
> This is a longer post than I normally send, what I am trying to say is
> lets
> be adult about the content on here and I'll try not to respond with
> negative
> insults without seeing the others point of view.

I don`t often post, here or anywhere else. I`m a believer in the count to
1000 and then think "Is this post really worth reading?"

This newsgroup is the only one that I have a kill-file for, mainly around
a certain series of aol addresses.

Adrian
Please replace NoSpam with sensualworld
to email me.

References

Flame
"Warrior Games - News" <warrior@zen.co.uk>
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 00:00:00 +0000