Mark and members -- I appreciate your sincere concern for the forum. However, I want to re-emphasize: please don't comment on the rule changes, or the behavior of other members here. This is a place to debate ideas, not intra-list conduct.
The rules have some drawbacks - they do restrict debate. However, in organizing the forum 4 years ago, the organizers made a choice that these restrictions were minor compared to the larger goal of keeping the focus on issues and not the personal flame wars that engulf other forums. There are many other places, both in Minneapolis and on the net, for unrestrained rhetoric. This cannot possibly be all things to all people, but we feel our record over the last four-plus years demonstrates the worth of the approach. Please, let's move on. David Brauer List manager > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Anderson & Turpin > Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 3:32 PM > To: List Manager; mpls@mnforum > Subject: Re: [Mpls] Rules change > > David - > > I appreciate that you are always trying to refine the rules here to make the > forum better. And I agree with a previous poster that you've never taken > advantage of your status as List Manager to change the tenor of the > discussion towards your own political viewpoint. And I really appreciate > the low wages you are paid for this. _______________________________________ 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
