Hi Magnus, Horse, Certainly a more actively moderated forum is needed for the "difficult stuff". A "noisy" MD list can be a good source of seeds (grains of sand), but it's a poor place to develop ideas or progress arguments (into pearls).
(I've made suggestions on-list before and volunteered off-list to Horse to help anyway he needs.) Ian On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Magnus Berg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Horse > > One option could be to relaunch the moderated MoQ Focus list. I'd be > interested. Perhaps it doesn't even need to be moderated if we can't get a > decent list of moderators (and with decent, I mean quantity, not quality). > > The noise level on MD is a tad too much for me to muster for very long at a > time. > > Magnus > > > > > On 2011-01-03 19:58, Horse wrote: >> >> Hi Ian >> >> Happy New Year to you too - and to all the rest of you. >> >> I'm not making the term Reification taboo any more than I have made the >> terms SOM or Intellect or Intellectual or similar terms taboo. They're >> just words. >> What I am doing though is killing the whole SOM as Intellect debate and >> any avenues that lead towards it. Marsha's Reification is, from my point >> of view, just another way of expressing that debate. >> >> Something else that I would like to see emerge in 2011 is a debate about >> Politics and the MoQ. This is something that really hasn't occurred here >> yet - I think the reasons are obvious - but maybe I will be able to >> facilitate this during the coming year. >> In case anyone is thinking of jumping in about here, could I please ask >> you to hold on for a while (that's a polite request) as I would like to >> make sure that the general level of debate is back to it's usual caustic >> levels first! >> >> One thing that I have been putting a lot of thought into recently is how >> to balance the right to speak freely with the right to be heard. >> It's a tricky one - how do you balance the interests of those that don't >> scream and shout the loudest with those that do? >> Who upholds the rights of those who wish to have moderate and reasonable >> debate? >> >> Hmmm! >> >> Horse >> >> >> >> On 03/01/2011 09:34, Ian Glendinning wrote: >>> >>> Hi Horse, >>> >>> Glad to see MD is not a democracy, but as I've consistently said any >>> good democracy has good regulation too. You have my support. >>> >>> One observation on the edict itself. The term reification cannot >>> itself be made taboo (I hope, it has valid uses in our discussion - eg >>> misplaced concreteness of named objects), but in this context, as a >>> rhetorical cover for SOLAQI etc ... then the point is clear. >>> >>> Happy new year BTW, >>> Ian >> > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
