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Politics : Let's Start The War And Get It Over With

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To: Rock_nj who wrote (319)	3/1/2003 7:23:30 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) of 808

What is LWP? Subject 50362 LOL!!! Good luck! You're going to need it! Poet is a friend and she still wouldn't dream of letting me in there. Nor would Mephisto into the Donkey's Inn. My trip to being banned there was famous for a short while. And led to my one and only suspension. I think you miss the intent of moderated threads. Actually, they serve two purposes. One is to enforce civility. Now that tends to be a subjective thing and turns out to be moderator's whim with (sometimes) a light touch. That can have interesting twists and turns, as I was to find out the hard way. Subject 52488 That operated for 6 months as a supposedly civil boxing ring for both sides. It was supposedly to be democratically run with something like the UN Security Council. Now I understand why that doesn't work. It turned out to be a good way of making enemies of your friends and even more bitter enemies of your enemies. I ended up being caught in the middle of all the crossfire. I eventually shut the thread down to get out of that position. You probably know the Foreign Affairs Discussion Group: Subject 51724 I'm banned from that. Shortly after 911, one the people there, a friend of the moderator's I was to find out later, posted a piece blaming the US for the attack - we asked for it because of our blatant mistreatment of Arabs. I counter-attacked- -and was banned. In the meantime, Mr. Duray continued to post his crazy conspiracy theories there for months afterward. I took delight in tweaking the moderator about that via PM. Duray was eventually banned, but he had a long run. And the other is to provide an enclave for one POV only - that is what LWP and RWET do. Subject 50545 And actually I have no real dispute with a moderator's right to do that. I'm a member in good standing of RWET. And that means LWP is verboten. And there's no hypocrisy or pretense in Poet's or JLA's position. You don't pass their litmus test, you walk.

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