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And that was not five minutes.
harv wrote: I'm sorry, this is ABUSE. If you want ARGUMENTS, it's down the hall. "Gary Fritz" wrote in message ... nget wrote: .Better go back to the brol swimming pool where all the waters are knee deep and no sharks to bite you. Some people (let's call them "Group #1") enjoy being argumentative, abrasive, obnoxious, and otherwise confrontive. They think any discussion that happens without confrontation is boring and not worth while. Rather than finding a place where like-minded people can argue with each other, they prefer to take over existing groups and force them into their mold. Some people ("Group #2") prefer to engage in conversation and civil exchange without abuse, name-calling, insults, and other confrontive behavior. They prefer to discuss the topic they're interested in rather than engaging in arguments and character assassination. I believe Group #2 vastly outnumbers Group #1. But Group #1 delights in destroying places where other people had useful conversations. A year or two ago, ARBR contained almost exclusively people in Group #2. We had many fun and productive conversations, and everyone seemed to enjoy the group. In the last year or two, a few people in Group #1 have roosted in ARBR. They have made it their crusade to impose their style onto many/most posts. Most people in Group #2 find confrontive posts annoying and distracting. Many discussions veer off from the intended topic to an argument about one thing or another. Many of these Group #2 people have decided ARBR is no longer a fun place to talk about recumbents, so they've moved to places like BROL that exclude insulting and abusive posters. Since the Group #1 types choose not to have their confrontive arguments in a place that welcomes confrontive arguments, but prefer to take over and destroy nonconfrontive environments, the Group #2 types are forced to go somewhere that excludes Group #1. It's like people who live in a nice neighborhood who have to move because a bunch of thugs and hoods takes over the place, breaking windows and destroying property. Group #1 is the cyberspace equivalent of those thugs and hoods. nget, if you want to call places like BROL "wading pools," you go right ahead. I imagine gangbangers think of nice neighborhoods as "wading pools" and themselves as "sharks" too. When actually they're just cheap crooks. It's a shame you "sharks" think it's so much fun to **** and **** in the ARBR pool. You're just fouling something nice and ruining it for the vast majority of people who prefer not to wallow in their own filth. -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://home.fuse.net/larryvarney |
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Yes it was.
"Larry Varney" wrote in message ... And that was not five minutes. harv wrote: I'm sorry, this is ABUSE. If you want ARGUMENTS, it's down the hall. "Gary Fritz" wrote in message ... nget wrote: .Better go back to the brol swimming pool where all the waters are knee deep and no sharks to bite you. Some people (let's call them "Group #1") enjoy being argumentative, abrasive, obnoxious, and otherwise confrontive. They think any discussion that happens without confrontation is boring and not worth while. Rather than finding a place where like-minded people can argue with each other, they prefer to take over existing groups and force them into their mold. Some people ("Group #2") prefer to engage in conversation and civil exchange without abuse, name-calling, insults, and other confrontive behavior. They prefer to discuss the topic they're interested in rather than engaging in arguments and character assassination. I believe Group #2 vastly outnumbers Group #1. But Group #1 delights in destroying places where other people had useful conversations. A year or two ago, ARBR contained almost exclusively people in Group #2. We had many fun and productive conversations, and everyone seemed to enjoy the group. In the last year or two, a few people in Group #1 have roosted in ARBR. They have made it their crusade to impose their style onto many/most posts. Most people in Group #2 find confrontive posts annoying and distracting. Many discussions veer off from the intended topic to an argument about one thing or another. Many of these Group #2 people have decided ARBR is no longer a fun place to talk about recumbents, so they've moved to places like BROL that exclude insulting and abusive posters. Since the Group #1 types choose not to have their confrontive arguments in a place that welcomes confrontive arguments, but prefer to take over and destroy nonconfrontive environments, the Group #2 types are forced to go somewhere that excludes Group #1. It's like people who live in a nice neighborhood who have to move because a bunch of thugs and hoods takes over the place, breaking windows and destroying property. Group #1 is the cyberspace equivalent of those thugs and hoods. nget, if you want to call places like BROL "wading pools," you go right ahead. I imagine gangbangers think of nice neighborhoods as "wading pools" and themselves as "sharks" too. When actually they're just cheap crooks. It's a shame you "sharks" think it's so much fun to **** and **** in the ARBR pool. You're just fouling something nice and ruining it for the vast majority of people who prefer not to wallow in their own filth. -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://home.fuse.net/larryvarney |
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Joe Keenan wrote:
I'm curious why folks stay with this newsgroup given that any thread is immediately subject to contamination. (I'm being kind) Yup, I'm a "usta be" and just stopped in to see if things had changed in a few months. Because moderation of a forum is the greater evil. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. -- Tom Sherman |
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M wrote:
I'm staying with this group as an experiment. I want to see how many people I have to put in the kill file before it becomes a group about recumbent bikes again. Anyone who responds to Dolan is in my kill file. Now I can read this group in five minutes and most of what I read is about recumbent bikes. To all of you "on topic" people, thank you for all the good info. To all of you "off topic" people, see ya! Kill files are for people who lack the intelligence to sort what is worthwhile to them, and the self-control to ignore what they consider useless. -- Tom Sherman |
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Tom Sherman wrote:
Joe Keenan wrote: I'm curious why folks stay with this newsgroup given that any thread is immediately subject to contamination. (I'm being kind) Yup, I'm a "usta be" and just stopped in to see if things had changed in a few months. Because moderation of a forum is the greater evil. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. I thought the road to Hell was paved with PowerPoint presentations... I agree with Tom, just say 'no' to moderation. -- Mark Chandler Superior, CO http://www.MileHighSkates.com |
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Doug Huffman wrote:
It used to be my favorite and I'm waiting ... and patient. I have outwaited and outwitted most disruptors. Really? -- Tom Sherman |
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M. Chandler wrote:
Because with a decent, threaded newsreader (Mozilla Thunderbird), it's very easy to separate the wheat from the chaff, and read the stuff that interests me. Having "grown up" net-wise on rn, I prefer usenet to web-based discussions. Hey, a sensible post! -- Tom Sherman |
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Guess Who I Am wrote:
the "REAL" reason to stay here is that you "CAN'T get "BANNED" from here like someone does from his serious income making board. and you know who that i'm talking about,now don't you? I know what/who Earl is referring to (as do all Monkeys), but maybe some here do not. -- Tom Sherman |
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harv wrote:
Cause here I can tell the sycophants and stepford wives to **** off... Harv, Don't you mean "fock off"? -- Tom Sherman |
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M. Chandler wrote:
Tom Sherman wrote: Joe Keenan wrote: I'm curious why folks stay with this newsgroup given that any thread is immediately subject to contamination. (I'm being kind) Yup, I'm a "usta be" and just stopped in to see if things had changed in a few months. Because moderation of a forum is the greater evil. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. I thought the road to Hell was paved with PowerPoint presentations... I agree with Tom, just say 'no' to moderation. And I disagree. The best thing is to have both opportunities. For the people who want to be free to say anything they want, no matter how crude, vulgar, stupid, or whatever - unmoderated is the way to go. But for those who do not want to be around such things, who want to engage in civil conversations, to be able to object and disagree without having someone becoming objectionable and disagreeable, a moderated forum is a good thing. Too many people get disgusted and turned off by unnecessarily crude, vicious and sick language and behavior. They will leave any discussion area that tolerates that sort of thing. Some don't; they thrive on it. Think along these lines: you go to a party. If one or more of the guests starts behaving badly, to the point of drowning out all other conversations with their childish obscenities, what would you do? Enjoy it? Rejoice in the freedom of bad taste? Or would you just wish that they could learn to behave like adults? For those who cannot behave, there are the unmoderated lists. And, for the same reason, there are the moderated ones as well. If what's important to you is the freedom to behave badly, then yes, feel free to say "no" to moderation. And those of us who are adults in more than just age, will thank you. -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://home.fuse.net/larryvarney |
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