Agree with Chuq 100% on this one. I found that where anyone is on the
scale from anarchist to administrator depends on their commitment to the
group and function. In my experience, the first-amendment libertarians
are invariably new and passing; their focus is on their own delivery and
never on group dynamics. And the listowners who support total disregard
for decorum and common sense have no direct interest in the nature of
the forum, only its digital functions.
If I'm a wirehead admin of a large number of electronic gatherings on a
variety of topics, if I am primarily or solely interested in the way the
hardward and software function, then I could care less about the petty
disturbances on any one of my lists. Deal with it, I would say, I have
four thousand megs a second running through my station, I'm supposed to
take up the cause of a victim of offstage bickering in Knitting-L?
Whereas, if my life hobby has been knitting, and I formed, formatted,
formulated a group of likeminded souls over the years, and we each have
great pride in our bunch, I will very definitely care if one of the
contributing members is abused offlist by some dud who offers nothing
else to us.
You host a friday-night reception for your daughter's coming wedding.
One of the guests is of the habit of sneaking out into the street and
letting the air out of the tires of the autos belonging to the groom's
mother, the cousin of the bride. He's ticked off because the bride
didn't pick him.
If you are the mother of the bride, you will react to this vandalism
quite a bit differently than might the owner of the hall who only rents
the space.
The problem with hosting any party which allows the appetites of the
male juvenille to reign supreme, unmolested, is, your party will begin
to resemble his bedroom. He doesn't care. You should.
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