People, please excuse my excuse my use of terms "us, we, them" in this post. It was the easiest way to write this.
X, I am every bit as capable as any other person of acting out, being militant. I don't like that my attempts to save our threads being ridiculed. I am not by nature a pacifist. If you re-read the format proposed, not much has changed here, this remains the designated battle field. You are still allowed to duke it out. No dozens, no threats, but no cry babies either. It is the other threads that we are to police ourselves, in order to remain in good form. Sniping should be off limits on our own threads, by our own choice. When we badtalk others at a moderated thread it is like talking behind their backs, but they are listening. Rude. "Take it to the Boxing Ring." Here I can say I hate you, but I can't say I'm gonna hurt you, or that your virtue is questionable, or that you are an international jewel thief, or an under-cover agent for the FBI. It's the same here, just fairer.
Just as we didn't want LW's crapping at our picnic, and we're not allowed to crap at theirs, we don't need to crap at our own. Our S#IT stinx too. Now I propose we do this to not because we want to be fair, and we hope they will be fair, and precisely because we have this place for challenging their viewpoints, directly. I can say what I want to you here, or nasty things to e-bill, here, and he is free to say them back. It is unfair to talk about them on "our" thread. You didn't like it when that happened on RWET, did you? Shall we practice being a good example on LWP and hope they will do the same? We can still expresss radical ideas, there and here, but we should avoid personal attacks where a person can't defend his/herself due to moderated thread exclusion.
I'm headed out for a while.
Just as I resent the responsibility of being "morality, education, and cleanliness monitor" that comes with being a parent, I hate being any kind of thread police. I just hate it. Work with me here, okay? |
