3783  On personal insults...

Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 12:22:08 -0700
From: Derik Rawson <rawsonweb@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Demeaning the Denver Tango Festical is not a person insult...hello??? Re: [TANGO-L] On personal insults...

Dear Lucia:

Brilliant posting! You are right. The moderator for
this list should be a good sense of humor. We are here
to learn and grow.

Derik
d.rawson@rawsonweb.com

--- Lucia <curvasreales@YAHOO.COM.AR> wrote:

> From Aron:
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> >The list is supposed to be self-moderated.
> Apparently, it does not
> really work, no matter what a few loud (and well
> established) voices say.<
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> From Michael at Tango Bellingham:
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> >On the other hand, a moderation system similiar to
> that used on some
> other popular forums might raise the signal to noise
> ratio and give a
> sutble slap on the wrist to folks like Derik, who
> maybe after seeing
> 99% of their posts moderated -1 Flamebait might just
> get a clue.<
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> Michael,
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> Your anger is quite understandable, but IMHO should
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> "moderated" by a sense of humor. I have to confess
> that the invective exchange do highly amuse
> me....and
> I am VERY bored on those moderated forums where
> people
> are afraid of a pontiff's censure of their
> journalistic attempts :-). Alberto's forum that some
> of our members love to hate is a dead pool in
> comparison with this one...Membership may be
> stagnating here, but a more relevant statistic would
> be the list hit rate. I bet it's fine...
>
> And let's not forget that not quite so long ago,
> colorful invective in public discourse was the norm,
> exactly because no one was taking it seriously...
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