Bill,
Do you have phd of some kind?
Thanks,
Lee
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Ed,
Bart pretends to respond to my post of 6/26 at 5:17pm with multiple
insinuations as ridiculous as they are inaccurate, and you ask I meekly
accept such in silence? You ask too much, I think.
His unprovoked and undisguised hostility has not been reprimanded. He
remains free to do it again at any time on any subject. I yield to
your authority as moderator but dispute the wisdom of your request. As
a courtesy I am sending you my response to Bart as a cc. I will
additionally share it with any and every individual who asks, on or off
list.
You claim to "value" a collegiate atmosphere that clearly does not
exist. In the absence of reasonable standards from you, anything goes.
Always has. Instead of moderating the heat under the pot, when the
pot boils you turn off the fire. Full on and full off may have been
"state of the art in terms of controlling early airplane engines but
that was a hundred years ago or so. It's absolutely primitive in a day
of computers and psychologists. Primitive isn't innocence. It is
unrestrained excess...an absence of civility absolutely contrary to any
"collegiate atmosphere".
As moderator, you have responsibility inseparable from the authority
you randomly wield whether you know it or not. No society can long
function without agreement of some sort among a majority as to what
conduct is acceptable and what is not. Such agreement is inseparably
intertwined with the PRIMARY purpose of forums such as this list. If
you, yourself, know what that is, would you be kind enough to share
that knowledge with those on TECH?
If it is to encourage the exchange of useful information, more
"structure" from you could improve the civility and volume of such
exchange. If, as a result, more people of like mind joined, and
participation between expert and novice alike increased, would that not
be deemed desirable?
If it is to merely survive just as it is, like a rogue rose unpruned,
what's the "point"? The debates between good information and that
which is incorrect or misleading are routinely hijacked by individuals
who would prevail by undisguised personal intimidation. We expel the
disruptive from our schools at some point because their very presence
is fundamentally incompatible with the learning process. Is there such
a point here? Where?
When egos are allowed more influence than experience or knowledge on
TECH, the sheer volume of manure eventually smothers honest debate and
the flow of useful information ceases. This happens with such
regularity and predictability that we even have a term for it useful in
search. The term is PIZZA. The effect is, again, fundamentally
incompatible with the learning process.
WRB
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On Jun 26, 2010, at 17:42, Ed Burkhead wrote:
Bill,
Please respond to Bart, if at all, off the forum. I’ve already
responded to him.
Ed
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