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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] owwwww, dang<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 3:22 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal> <span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>> </span></span><i>I do agree with John in general on the use of a moderator and an anonymous one to boot. </i><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>>…The problem I have is that for all I know the very man who shuts off debate could be the same one that I am debating with, or he may have never sent a single post to the E</span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>x</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>tropian list </span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>in his life </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>other than the ones in which he issues his decrees. Nobody knows except for Spike and Mr. Mystery Man Moderator himself (or herself)</span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>,</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'> and neither is saying.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>John K Clark<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Well there ya go John, good justification for an anonymous ExIMod: now you are free to debate me and I am free to debate you. This I can assure you: ExiMod is not me and I will not take on that burden of omnipotence anytime in the foreseeable. I don’t like unlimited power.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My notion is that if one is being insulting on Exi-chat to the point one is worried about this, then don’t be so insulting on Exi-chat. We have a place for that kinda thing. People being a little more circumspect and generally respectful of others on ExI-chat is a good thing. We have a place for US politics. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>