[FairfieldLife] Solution to the Iranian "problem"
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Solution to Overposting
On Nov 17, 2007, at 10:48 AM, new.morning wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was away most of yesterday and didn't notice until late last night that Off World was up to 44 posts. This may be opening up a can of worms, but I wonder if we should have a policy where I grant a "special dispensation" of extra posts if a particularly lively conversation is taking place between two people, as long as it's substantive and not just a flame war. Barry and Judy would not be eligible. I would vote strongly against this Rick, as being too arbitrary. And in the case of the debate you entered into, its not exactly stellar in terms of no personal attacks. To give personal degraders more posts seems counterproductive. As an alternative, I would consider raising the weekly limit to 50 IF similtaneously, we institute a ZERO TOLERANCE on over posting. Best idea yet. To give Off more of a forum for his gratuitous insults--entertaining though they can be--but deny Barry and Judy one for theirs seems totally arbitrary and unfair. This idea is one I could vote for. Sal
RE: [FairfieldLife] Solution to Overposting
I would vote strongly against this Rick, as being too arbitrary. And in the case of the debate you entered into, its not exactly stellar in terms of no personal attacks. To give personal degraders more posts seems counterproductive. You’re right. As an alternative, I would consider raising the weekly limit to 50 IF similtaneously, we institute a ZERO TOLERANCE on over posting. Go over the limit an you are instantly banned for the duration of the week AND the following week. Do it twice and its TWO weeks, and ratchet it up for additional infractions, etc. The extra 15 posts a week would give people breathing room -- the ideas is don't even come close to the limit if you are a lazy or imprecise counter. What do ya’ll think? Are 35 posts too few? There are a few people who post quality stuff who always seem to run out. And to encourage rehabilitation, if a person is in the 2-3+ week ban category, they can have their ratchet amount eliminated if they stay unbanned for three months. But they need to apply for such a waiver, requesting it of you and the group. Now it’s getting complicated. Gotta keep it simple if you want me to administer it. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.34/1134 - Release Date: 11/16/2007 9:52 AM
[FairfieldLife] Solution to Overposting
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was away most of yesterday and didn't notice until late last night that > Off World was up to 44 posts. This may be opening up a can of worms, but I > wonder if we should have a policy where I grant a "special dispensation" of > extra posts if a particularly lively conversation is taking place between > two people, as long as it's substantive and not just a flame war. Barry and > Judy would not be eligible. I would vote strongly against this Rick, as being too arbitrary. And in the case of the debate you entered into, its not exactly stellar in terms of no personal attacks. To give personal degraders more posts seems counterproductive. As an alternative, I would consider raising the weekly limit to 50 IF similtaneously, we institute a ZERO TOLERANCE on over posting. Go over the limit an you are instantly banned for the duration of the week AND the following week. Do it twice and its TWO weeks, and ratchet it up for additional infractions, etc. The extra 15 posts a week would give people breathing room -- the ideas is don't even come close to the limit if you are a lazy or imprecise counter. And to encourage rehabilitation, if a person is in the 2-3+ week ban category, they can have their ratchet amount eliminated if they stay unbanned for three months. But they need to apply for such a waiver, requesting it of you and the group. People, particularly here, do not change behavior unless there are consequences. Make the consequences clear, immediate and significant, and the overposting problem will vanish overnight.
[FairfieldLife] Solution to the Violence Problem -- Ban Bad Writers!
There has been a lot of talk talk talk lately about how to "solve" the "violence problem" in America. Many have suggested that the problem is caused by Bad Guns and that it can be solved by banning them. I think they're focusing on the symptom and ignoring the cause of the disease, which is Bad Writing. Joseph Campbell and others have written persuasively about the power of myth. And Campbell, at least, was hip enough to define "myth" as That Which We See Around Us Most Often And Thus Are Most Influenced By. For most of the people in America, that means that *their* myths consist of what they see and hear on the Nightly News, read in newspapers, or see on TV and in the movies they watch. And what is the common denominator of *all* of these sources of modern myth? It's the WRITERS, dummy. If you want to find the source of what is wrong with America, look at the PLOTLINES of the myths they read and watch. The problems that they see on the News or on TV and in movies are almost always "solved" by either killing someone or putting them in jail. So, having grown up on a steady diet of seeing these two options presented as pretty much the *only* options, what do they do in their personal lives? Well, duh. The problem is in the WRITERS! The people who write the scripts for the newscasters, and the newspaper articles, and the TV shows and the movies are just Bad Writers. They have no fuckin' IMAGINATION. The only solutions they *can* imagine to problems are to kill someone or put them in jail. It's been a problem in myth since there were myths. Look at the Bible -- pretty much cover-to-cover violence and problems "solved" by resorting to violence. Look at the Bhagavad-Gita, in which the Big Blue God spends 18 chapters or so trying to convince his limo driver that the way to solve not only society's problems but his own spiritual problems is to go out and kill as many people as possible. Lack of IMAGINATION, I tell you. Forget all this "ban guns" stuff. As I said earlier, if you banned guns, they'd just use something else, because pretty much all of the myths they've ever heard in their entire lives have presented them with a "solution" to their problems that involves either killing someone or putting them in jail. BAN BAD WRITERS! Get rid of all the reporters whose imagination is so impoverished that all they can think of to write about is stories about humans killing other humans or putting other humans in jail. Get rid of the TV writers and the screenwriters who are so unintelligent and so lacking in imagination that they churn out endless iterations of the same themes. Line the motherfuckers all up against a wall and shoot them, or put them in jail. ( Just kidding about that last sentence -- I think a more suitable punishment for these guys would be to put them all in the same room and let them bore each other to death. :-) Then start training a new generation of writers who have some IMAGINATION, ferchrissakes, and can come up with some myths that are worth reading and worth watching. Recruit them from kids who grew up on the myths created by people like Gandhi or Buddha or Martin Luther King, and who can thus think of more than two solutions to the problems of the world. Then let these new writers start writing the News, and the TV shows, and the movies, and see what happens.
[FairfieldLife] SOLUTION!
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