[extropy-chat] Take Back The List

[Adrian Tymes]

Nice idea - but, what happens if political posters don't move
their content there, because no one goes there because it's all
politics?  Part of the insidiousness is that world politics can
seem like the most important issue it is possible to discuss, at
least to those who argue the issue.

--- Bret Kulakovich <bret at bonfireproductions.com> wrote:

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> Can an extropy-politics at lists.extropy.org be created and all of this 
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> be moved to that list?
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> There is nothing innate to this list going on in 8 of the 10 current 
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> threads, regardless of IQ, demographic, geographic or otherwise. I  
> can find this type of content anywhere. This is like the BBS days and
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> the rise of alt.syntax.tactical. Whether there is intent or not, this
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> place is getting trashed on the same topic over and over again. We're
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> certainly not observing any principles or improving the world through
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> this, are we?
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> Bret K.
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> On Dec 16, 2005, at 3:03 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:48:51PM -0800, spike wrote:
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> >> No.  A week of political posts will not destroy the
> >> list, otherwise we would have destroyed ourselves a
> >> hundred times over.  If people have something to say
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> > I would argue that we did. We suffered a hundred deaths
> > of thousand paper cuts. This list is but a husk of its
> > former self. We've killed it. We could as well throw
> > a funeral party. Wheee!
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