On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 7:54 PM, David Hobby<[email protected]> wrote: > John Williams wrote: >> >> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Nick Arnett<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> We have a sense of community here, along with the usual collaterals of >>> explicit and implicit standards of behavior and discourse. We do, >>> indeed. >>> We don't like straw men or trolls (which I can't help observing are at >>> two >>> rather opposite ends of the materials spectrum, whatever that might >>> signify). >> >> There's that "we" several more times. How many people subscribe to this >> email list, and how many of them do you speak for when you say "we"? How >> did you determine that these people have that view? > > You're not going to claim that all the lurkers are > the "silent majority" are you? : )
No. I don't really follow you. > This is a silly > discussion, because every statement Nick made above > would get broad agreement on most established lists. Have you done that experiment, or are you speculating? Perhaps your contention is true, but I think that the term "community" and also "straw man" are ambiguous, so the broad agreement would not necessarily be meaningful, since people would be thinking they were agreeing to different things. I notice, for example, that "straw man" gets used by several people here in a way that I have trouble following. > What do you want, that we should all sign a petition? I do not want anything in particular with regards to what list subscribers believe. "We" gets thrown around by several posters, and it was unclear to me in several cases who was being referred to. I was just asking questions. _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
