>> How about you delete what you don't want or decline membership in the >> list at all? Police your own space instead of others please. > > I've never understood why people find this such a difficult concept > to grasp. If you don't like a TV show, change the channel. If you > don't like a musician, don't buy their albums. If you don't like a > poster's comments, filter them out. > > By filtering just those whose signal-to-noise ratio is > unacceptably low for me, the experience of reading this list > becomes much more enjoyable. Email filters are easy to use and > allow you to avoid those whose posts you don't like without having > to go down the censorship route.
The problem is that one has to discern that there's a worthwhile signal before deciding to filter noise. To use one of your examples, if a viewer tunes into the premiere of The Dancing Ombudsman and decides he doesn't like it, he's probably not going to try watching again the next week. A new subscriber to ProFox who immediately sees ten flaming political posts is unlikely to stick around long enough to figure out who she should filter. > And censorship is never going to be a part of this list. That's good. The problem, which applies to a lot more than this list, is how can an uncensored group survive without degenrating into the sort of mess that makes so many comments sections unreadable? -Jerry Wolper [email protected] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
