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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (16166)	6/8/2001 10:32:31 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

If the threads were assembled by invitation, and truly private, she would have a point And I think that IS the point. Moderated threads were established, and thus they exist. They were established to provide places where like-minded people could congregate, under the terms of invitation, to do their thing within the latitude granted by the invitation--which is or ought to be clearly set out in the rsvp. So when you are walking through a public place, and you hear the tinkling of ice coming from the room labelled "real estate convention"--you don't barge in to drink all the rum, or to eat all the pickles and cheese--unless you can pretend you're thinking of putting your house up for sale<g> When, while walking through SI, one sees a room labelled "ABC" annual meeting, MODERATED--then one knows there are security at the door--and one knows why they are there. A moderated thread is NOT like an open house. It is not necessary for people to feel oppressed merely at the presence of gatherings where they have no legitimate interest, or where their sole desire is to prevent the rightful interests of the assembled from being realized. A separate complaint of your post regarded behaviour that was unceremonious ,arbitrary, petty, insulting, misleading, or provocative. Perhaps one can see the justice in being able to moderate from inside a room, rather than merely from outside? Nobody else can force you into a room. Why should you have the priviledge of forcing yourself? Moderated threads are not "open house." They are a modification of that idea. They are still under the legal authority of the mall owner, and exist under their terms of use--which are, as we are all aware--somewhat arbitrary in the final analysis. When I grew up we did not lock our doors. Later in life we found we needed to. One hates to see wrinkles on the world, but it is called PROGRESS. You are right, the policy of allowing some people to lock their doors can be debated. Trying to kick them down, however, would be considered unceremonious.