<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 5, 2021, 10:34 AM Dave Sill via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>The moderation here is exceedingly light-handed. We don't want to exclude anyone from on-topic discussion. The problem with John was that he was a broken record, saying the same thing over and over and over again until it became abusive and drove off a number of valued contributors.</div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That problem... isn't really a problem.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ours is an attention issue. We are focused on John instead of whatever-the-hell-it-was</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We're still talking about John. He's already gone away, defeated by a totalitarian slant (whether objectively fact or subjectively perceived is not a nuance I care about)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We've had automatic filters on message content in our inbox pretty much since the dawn of email... but instead of taking responsibility for our own inbox, we demanded that the listserv apply content restrictions on everyone.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You get the gist of what I'm saying? You don't like it? Block me from your inbox and you'll never have to see my opinion again. However, if I use the listserv and moderation to banish your thoughts from the group then I have killed what I thought was a core philosophy of this group. At that point, we're no longer Extropy-chat.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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