New member Linda Mann writes: > > Finally, if anyone notices a crow in Minneapolis and it begins to fly to > another municipality, under no circumstances do I want to hear about it. Nada!
As the maker/enforcer of the rules, I suppose I have to tolerate the occasional cawing - er, mocking. However, I do want to reiterate the reason Minneapolis-Issues exists: to discuss local issues, or unique local effects, that are ignored or overwhelmed on larger forums. This may seem too narrow, or too ridiculous, to new (and some old) members. However, I believe it is essential to keeping the forum focused. It's one reason we have had impact on the Minneapolis political scene. On other forums, discussions drift into abstract ideology. Here, "keeping it local" forces people to better connect issues to things that actually happen in their lives. Another benefit of local is people potentially have more affect on how those issues are handled politically. That is why distant D.C. or state-capitol stuff - while unarguably important - is left, in large part, to other forums (including our own sponsor's Minnesota-Politics-Discuss, set up expressly for statewide issues). I accept the need to explain this periodically. However, I ask members to respect this essential nature of a forum that has been fairly successful and significant for the past 3-plus years. Now let's get back to discussing local stuff instead of list management!! Sincerely, David Brauer List manager _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
