Thanks Cheerskep.
I am the new (or one of the new) kid(s) on the block. As such, I feel it's
my responsibility to learn the "norms" of the group and adapt to the list,
rather than have it adapt to me. The vigor of the exchanges presumably
serves the members well and I respect that. Having said/written that, if
there were more descriptive, as opposed to, prescriptive statements as part
of the discourse, I feel that I"d benefit more from reading postings to the
list. (Perhaps Chris would too.)
I don't feel in any danger of being kicked off and have no interest in
kicking anyone else off(although leaving the list has occurred to me- in
recognition of my neither being a practising artist nor an educated
philosopher). "Let the games ... continue."
Geoff C
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Expertise and aesthetic experience
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:36:36 EDT
Geoff -- I infer you're asking if we could block the mud-slinging.
We could block a mudslinger entirely by simply throwing him off the list,
but
I'm afraid that censoring each submitted posting by having a human
"gatekeeper" reading each before blocking it or letting it through -- that
may be
technically possible but not possible in practice, for numerous reasons.
One of the premises of this list is the allowance of "free-exchange",
vigorous give-and-take in which to test inchoate, new ideas under fire.
From time to time the exchanges get too hot, and spill out of the cooking
pan
into ad hominem flames, so we ask listers to cool it, and they do -- for a
while. If you go to http://www.artphilosophytalk.com you will see our
dignified
mission statement, but it's true that dignity has not been our salient
characteristic. It's probably no credit to us that we have become quite
used
to it. Listers who cannot tolerate the tone simply quit the forum, and that
is regrettable. The only time we have kicked someone off, it was not so
much
for being nasty as for consistently being irrelevant to art and philosophy
--
using the forum for preachments about religion, politics, and other
impertinences. -- cheerskep
In a message dated 10/10/08 3:39:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Chris referred to "competive mud-slinging". I thought that discursive
> discussion might be the terminology others might employ.
> Geoff C
>
>
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Reply-To: [email protected]
> >To: [email protected]
> >Subject: Re: Expertise and aesthetic experience
> >Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:34:54 EDT
> >
> >In a message dated 10/10/08 2:43:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> >
> > > Are there options to discursive discussion on the list?
> > >
> >Watchoo mean?
> >
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