[extropy-chat] Meta, flame bait was hope you can comprehend

[Keith Henson]

At 10:16 PM 5/18/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>I take issue with my post being dismissed as "leakage".

It wasn't *your* post, Joseph, it was the guy who has said to me in private 
email that he has left the list.

>To my mind, it was a legitimate response to a legitimate criticism of
>cryonics. Sorry, Keith, if you think that such criticism is unwarranted
>and deserving of summary censorship.

Oh, I agree that your response was legit, and said I appreciated it.  It is 
just that the original post was intentionally provocative--for this list.

>I chose to respond, and I don't think doing so was in any way
>contributing to any degredation of the list's signal-to-noise ratio.
>Indeed, I might say your response, and this one I'm replying to now,
>might fit into that category.

Yes and no.  The current topic is at the meta level.  I.e., how do you 
respond to what looks like intentional provocation?

>Last I'm saying on the subject.

It is a long standing problem.  One way it was solved can be seen on the 
cryonics list.  Worth considering I think.

Best wishes

Keith

>Joseph
>
>Keith Henson wrote:
>
> >At 09:06 AM 5/18/2006 -0500, Natasha wrote:
> >
> >
> >>At 12:20 AM 5/18/2006, Keith wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Joseph, appreciate your defense, but wish you and others would take a meta
> >>>look at his attention seeking behavior and not reward it.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>This message and its subject line ought to have sent to moderators, not
> >>expressed on this list.  It simply does not set a tone that we want to 
> support.
> >>
> >>Thanks Keith,
> >>Natasha
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Sorry you took what I said as objectionable.  I took the original post as
> >noise injection.  It takes a relatively small amount of noise to wreck a
> >list if list members (or moderators) don't recognize it for what it is.  I
> >have been expressing this opinion for decades in many places and in my
> >opinion I fall for provocation more often than I should.
> >
> >Perhaps there is moderation by Eugene and J. Andrew going on the background
> >and this is just leakage.
> >
> >May I suggest the list technical people hang the moderator(s) email on the
> >bottom of each post?  Depending on your setup it can be difficult to go
> >back and find who the current ones are.
> >
> >Best wishes,
> >
> >Keith
> >
> >
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