My point is not to increase traffic or promote bad manners. My point is we need to be allowed to be ourselves online, we are a community, and sometimes we need to say what is on our mind to our neighbors.
Richard Hotchkiss http://www.hotstrings-inc.com > From: Elliot Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 09:01:55 -0400 > To: Richard Hotchkiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [UC] [ADMIN] decorum (and more noise) > > While I wouldn't recommend that Jeff, or anybody, volunteer to moderate > the list, I think that a list owner/sponsor ought to reserve the right > to warn individual list participants that their posts objectionable > because of ad hominem attacks, racial slurs, etc. Further he or she > should reserve the right to remove such a participant from the list, if > the participant persists in making such objectionable postings. > > I also do not share the sentiment in Richard's line: "So, bring on the > ethnic slurs and the noise. Delete is a great key.", or Brian's sense > that we should let the assholes reveal that they are assholes. It is > one thing to tolerate occasional lapses of decorum, and another to > encourage it. Remarks like Richard's and Brian's seem to me to > encourage bad manners, and all sorts of offensive verbal mudslinging. > Let's not go down the same road as the West Windsor/Paulsboro NJ online > community. > > Elliot > > > On Wednesday, Oct 1, 2003, at 08:33 US/Eastern, Richard Hotchkiss wrote: > >> I agree. Keep it free and open. I think we are all intelligent >> enough that >> we don't need to be parented. If someone want to say something, they >> are >> responsible for what they say. >> >> As to those who say that this is the only list that allows personal >> attacks >> etc., I think you need to go to some other community boards and read. >> I was >> recently searching for something and ran across the board for West >> Windsor/Paulsboro NJ. Those people are just mean and abusive to each >> other >> to the point where I was taken back by it (that takes a lot). And this >> is >> from an area with expensive houses and top rated schools, but I >> digress. >> >> So, bring on the ethnic slurs and the noise. Delete is a great key. >> >> Richard Hotchkiss >> http://www.hotstrings-inc.com >> >> >> >>> From: Brian Siano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Reply-To: Brian Siano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 18:30:57 -0400 >>> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Subject: Re: [UC] [ADMIN] decorum (and more noise) >>> >>> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:52:41 EDT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> How do people feel about establishing a rule, "no ethnic, racial, >>>> religious, gender or sexual orientation slurs, even if the intent is >>>> irony or parody"? And/or, maybe something in the direction of, "if I >>>> wrote this as a letter to the Inquirer, the DP, or The University >>>> City >>>> Review, would my language be acceptable for publication?" >>> >>> I'm against it. I'd prefer to know which people are assholes and which >>> aren't, and telling them to keep it under wraps makes it more >>> difficult. >>> >>> If people want to risk embarassing themselves with silly postings, I >>> say, >>> let them hang themselves. >>> ---- >>> You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the >>> list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see >>> <http://www.purple.com/list.html>. >>> >> >> ---- >> You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the >> list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see >> <http://www.purple.com/list.html>. >> >> > Elliot M. Stern > 552 South 48th Street > Philadelphia, PA 19143-2029 > United States of America > telephone: 215-747-6204 > mobile: 267-240-8418 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > (not readable on all platforms) > ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
