On Mar 13, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Jerry Wolper wrote:
> 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.
True, but the discussion concerned long-term members. It's a shame
that this community has to contain so many obnoxious and uninteresting
people, but it is what it is.
>> 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?
They can't, if by "survive" you mean maintain high standards of
discourse across all posts. But if its members recognize the nature of
such open fora, they understand the need to self-police. It would be
great if nobody fed the trolls, but I never expect that to happen, so
I continue to filter out both the trolls and the troll-feeders.
-- Ed Leafe
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