[extropy-chat] Take Back The List

[Bret Kulakovich]

> Nice idea - but, what happens if political posters don't move
> their content there,

Moderators. We have mods. That is what mods do. Or at least part of it.

> , because no one goes there because it's all
> politics?

Then I think they'd get the message. It would be one thing if there  
were a political aspect, or perhaps conviction/religious aspect to  
say, gene therapy to treat muscular dystrophy, and that was the basis  
of discussion.

I'm just not up for another "Summer of Bush" this Winter.

"Just ignore it" works until it consumes the whole list. I am  
intellectually opposed to killfiles, because they insulate you from  
the reality of your community. (What kind of "participant" does not  
seek to contribute and improve, regardless of their personal  
objections?)


Anyway, back to the alcove with me.



On Dec 16, 2005, at 12:46 PM, Adrian Tymes wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>>
>> Can an extropy-politics at lists.extropy.org be created and all of this
>>
>> be moved to that list?
>>
>> There is nothing innate to this list going on in 8 of the 10 current
>>
>> threads, regardless of IQ, demographic, geographic or otherwise. I
>> can find this type of content anywhere. This is like the BBS days and
>>
>> the rise of alt.syntax.tactical. Whether there is intent or not, this
>>
>> place is getting trashed on the same topic over and over again. We're
>>
>> certainly not observing any principles or improving the world through
>>
>> this, are we?
>>
>>
>> Bret K.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Dec 16, 2005, at 3:03 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:48:51PM -0800, spike wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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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