Oxygenating the flame in threads was Re: [extropy-chat] a futurist prediction

[Samantha Atkins]

On Aug 24, 2005, at 6:04 PM, Brett Paatsch wrote:

> Your post provides an opportunity to comment on a means for  
> improving list quality without censorship. If someone is  
> excessively and
> constistently rude or boring just ignore them. Warn them if you  
> like and
> if they don't heed you, just stop talking to them.

Sounds good.  In practice the rude loud voices seem to drown the  
perhaps more soft-spoken and perhaps more thoughtful ones.   I think  
the best list upkeep requires more active gardening and occasional  
pruning of a more aggressive kind than seen here.

- samantha
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