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From: Paul Senior	1/4/2011 11:27:17 PM
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Attack spam: I have always found it interesting in my business career the methods people use to get other people who don't report to them, to do things they want them to do. Do they appeal primarily to reason? To logic? To emotion? To the good-of-cause? To personal gain that will accrue to the doer? To a scratch-my-back, I'll-scratch yours? Pull rank? Back-slap? Threaten? Cajole? How do you make people aware of a charity and get them to contribute to it? Which methods would be employed? How about coming on to a quiet thread with established norms, whose primary posters might be old geezers who almost never make personal challenges to each other, and just start right off with a general attack -- perhaps it's just supposed to be humorous or attention-grabbing -- just come on and start calling everyone "you lily-livered cowards". Then quickly switch to a taunt that they can't come up with some names that the poster's looking for. So maybe SI says that isn't spam, or it's spam-that-am acceptable. It doesn't make the post very inviting though. And as written, beyond normal bounds for readers of the particular thread. Just my opinion as moderator of said thread.

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